OpenAI Non-Announcement: Requiring identity card verification for access to new API models and capabilities

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Today, we’re releasing Verified Organization status, a new way for developers to unlock access to the most advanced models and capabilities on the OpenAI Platform.

https://help.openai.com/en/articles/10910291-api-organization-verification

A new way to explain why you don’t have access to models besides “rolling out to {unpublished denial criteria}”. A new way to provide even more biometric data to be auctioned off when another “partner” goes bankrupt or gets hacked with little recourse.

Only one verify per 90 days per ID, regardless of organization count you administer or that are a business, LLC, or corporation with rotating principals.

Yes, it is now live and likely on your organization. Will they walk this back – if it gets as much negative feedback as the attempt at a project needing “verifications” of use-case and more details?

Walkthrough

Organization → General

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Your first challenge: A payment method is required, even though you have credits and removed the card to prevent unregulated abuse and billings coming from nowhere (search forum to find why this could be wise…)

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Your second challenge: you’re going be sent off-site to a new company and their terms, Persona.

A pop-up window prompts the user to verify their identity via a link using the partner Persona for organization verification. (Captioned by AI)
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To then reach…

The image is a webpage from OpenAI requesting additional information for identity verification, featuring consent for biometric data processing and a "Begin verifying" button. (Captioned by AI)
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And then read these “what they want” of terms. You can imagine some outsourced sweatshop looking at selfies or videos you are forced to take…

Birthdate, marital status, government ID, facial biometrics, device scrapings, tax forms...

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And even if you were to agree to that, your next step is not to upload a document, but to stupidly need to use a camera device, clearly for the phone crowd who are not wise in personal security.

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No matter. It’s just that dumb of a pattern that we can feed it what we want.

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That is, if you’d still do any of that to:

Verification unlocks access to advanced models and additional capabilities on the OpenAI platform, enabling you to utilize the latest AI advancements.

Conclusion

I hope you’ve found this walkthrough useful, of what you’ll need to do to ensure you are not left behind when using the API. (I made sure to let you know by my tone, differentiating me from the ones that came up with this, that it’s not my idea!)

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