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> Making someone produce an identity document or turn on their camera for a selfie absolutely tanks your funnel. It's dire.

Yes, but again, a good product manager wouldn't just eyeball the success percentage of a specific funnel and call it a day.

If your platform makes money by subtle including hints to what products to prefer, and forcing people to upload IDs as a part of the signup process, and you have the benefit of being the current market leader, then it might make sense for the company to actually make that sacrifice.

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But the comments here are the proof for xyzzy123 claim:

No one wants to upload an ID and instead is moving to a competitor!

To still suspect that this must be an evil genius plan by OpenAI doesn't make sense.

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> No one wants to upload an ID and instead is moving to a competitor!

Comments on the internet is rarely proof of anything, even so here.

If no one wants to upload an ID, we'd see ChatGPT closing in a couple of weeks, or they'll remove the ID verification. Personally, I don't see either of those happening, but lets wait and see if you're right or not. Email in the profile if you want to later brag about being right, I'll be happy to be corrected then :)

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The average HN user maybe, but elsewhere, I see people uploading their IDs without a second thought. Especially those in the "chromebooks and google docs in school" generation who've been conditioned against personal data privacy their whole lives