[postalcoder]

Man, some of you will invent conspiracy theories to justify some deeply cynical fiction. OAI has been more proactive about doing customer KYC than A\.

OpenAI, four months ago, started to require users to verify their identity if they flagged their activities on frontier models (gpt-5.3-codex and higher) as risky. Their filters were originally quite coarse and it resulted in a ton of normal tasks being flagged. There was a lot of drama about it at the time, but it seems like things have smoothed out.

KYC goes back to a year or two ago. API access to gpt-image-1 required it.

https://openai.com/index/trusted-access-for-cyber/

[blahblaher]

And some of you really are ingenuous... Like the US government cares anything about that.

[mijoharas]

Oh! So the new openai model is limited to US residents and they use their existing KYC process to verify it?

That makes sense if both openai and anthropic have export restrictions on their similar models. If they didn't then it seems like the comment you're replying to may be correct.