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by unsupp0rted 58 days ago
Doesn't OpenAI get mad if you ask cybersecurity questions and force you to upload a government ID, otherwise they'll silently route you to a less capable model?

> Developers and security professionals doing cybersecurity-related work or similar activity that could be mistaken by automated detection systems may have requests rerouted to GPT-5.2 as a fallback.

https://developers.openai.com/codex/concepts/cyber-safety

https://chatgpt.com/cyber

3 comments

Anthropic has started to ask for IDs for use of their products period

I don't like that trend. I get why they're doing it, but I don't like it

Are you in the UK? I've not had this happen to me (I'm not in the UK) so I'm wondering if the Online Safety Act has affected this, as it has with other products.
I am from the UK and have not had this happen to me (Yet? perhaps)
Fingers crossed!
I don't like this trend, but I get why they require it. The alternative seems to just ban cybersecurity-related questions.
They flatout gate any API access of the main models behind Persona ID verification. Entirely.