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Re: Identity verification on Claude

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Post by fluidcruft »

LPisGood wrote: post #166
halJordan wrote: post #74

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That's almost certainly just bad engineering/bad business. Not to say it wasn't an active choice, I'm sure it was. It just shows how extreme the power imbalance is between end users and big business that they have 0 desire to do things correctly and end users have 0 impact on correcting that thinking.

OpenAI has notoriously terrible engineering. Look no further than the numerous Reddit threads and YouTube videos about people trying to give them money for their services and being denied. Users routinely have to try a number of credit cards, a number of web browsers, a number of devices, and a number of physical locations. I’m not talking about sketchy prepaid cards from weird banks on a VPN in a country the United…

Anthropic is no better if the yardstick is complaints about these topics on reddit. The main thing Anthropic seems to add above and beyond OpenAI is overbilling (that also gets the talk-to-the-hand treatment).

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Post by preg_match »

baq wrote: post #11
forgetfreeman wrote: post #4

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There is the undocumented 3rd option of simply shrugging and moving on without LLMs, you know, business as usual.

That ship has sailed. Even if you never even tab complete in cursor, if you don’t let LLMs review your code you’re very, very behind unless you’re in a deeply specialized domain which doesn’t have any public training data available. Anything remotely public and you’re just outpaced.

It might just be fine to be outpaced. Software isn’t actually infinite, it has a purpose and does things. If it does the things it needs to do then… great! Maybe you’re done. And maybe you were done 20 years ago.

Re: Identity verification on Claude

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Post by gre »

LPisGood wrote: post #166
halJordan wrote: post #74

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That's almost certainly just bad engineering/bad business. Not to say it wasn't an active choice, I'm sure it was. It just shows how extreme the power imbalance is between end users and big business that they have 0 desire to do things correctly and end users have 0 impact on correcting that thinking.

OpenAI has notoriously terrible engineering. Look no further than the numerous Reddit threads and YouTube videos about people trying to give them money for their services and being denied. Users routinely have to try a number of credit cards, a number of web browsers, a number of devices, and a number of physical locations. I’m not talking about sketchy prepaid cards from weird banks on a VPN in a country the United…

I changed my macos system password and haven't been able to log into the macos chatgpt app since. It cant save the auth to wherever it tries. So bad.

Re: Identity verification on Claude

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Post by preg_match »

nullbio wrote: post #167
gcanyon wrote: post #116

If this is what it takes to get access to Fable I'll be sad, but go along with it. Fable was (at least in my testing) remarkably good.

This is why they do these things - because people just "go along with it."

It’s a foundational problem of how the US economy is structured. As a consumer, your power and leverage will always be at a minimum. This is why a strong democracy matters so much in capitalist nations, and why the US has been struggling for the past 25 years with that.

Re: Identity verification on Claude

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Post by redbell »

> We are rolling out identity verification for a few use cases, and you might see a verification prompt when accessing certain capabilities, as part of our routine platform integrity checks, or other safety and compliance measures.

I'd like to know what capabilities/features/plans that need ID verification as it is unclear for me right now. Also, this would become a true barrier in the future if they apply this for every account regardless of the features being used.

> We selected Persona Identities as our verification partner based on the strength of their technology, privacy controls, and security safeguards

Since I read I verified my LinkedIn identity. Here's what I handed over (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47098245), I, somehow, start feeling very uncomfortable with ID verification as it appears there are actually many players processing my personal data, not just Persona.

Re: Identity verification on Claude

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Post by [deleted] »

qingcharles wrote: post #168
eli wrote: post #144

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Isn’t that definitionally impossible? If they tell you about it then it’s not a shadow ban.

I guess it depends on the definition of shadow ban. In Reddit's case it means you can continue to post and comment, it's just that your posts and comments are no longer seen by others.

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Re: Identity verification on Claude

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Post by anonuser123 »

sourthyme wrote: post #228
fragmede wrote: post #216

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> As a non-US citizen Opus 4.8 is the best American LLM I will ever have access to. Codex-5.5 > Opus 4.8, so that's not true.

Where does 5.5 beat Opus 4.8?

Reviews for one. It's reviews are phenomenal.
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