Claude may require identity verification in some cases

Post by 8cvor6j844qw_d6 » Wed, Apr 15, 2026, 11:21 AM UTC

redbell wrote: post #32

pajamasam wrote: post #9

Anthropic says they may not train their models using your data, but apparently Persona (the service they will use for identity verification) WILL according to https://thelocalstack.eu/posts/linkedin-identity-verificatio... Persona also might send your data to 17 different subprocessors (16 if you exclude Anthropic itself).

> Persona also might send your data to 17 different subprocessors You reminded me of this submission from two months ago: I verified my LinkedIn identity. Here's what I handed over ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47098245 )

Post by HWR_14 » Wed, Apr 15, 2026, 11:25 AM UTC

Kim_Bruning wrote: post #33

trollbridge wrote: post #23

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... so let me understand this. It is frequently said that programming directly is obsolete, and the skill you must have now is knowing how to operate agentic AIs. Yet you aren't allowed to do this until you're 18. So, developing software is now 18+ only?

Qwen3 runs locally on reasonable hardware, and is comparable to a mid-2025 Claude Sonnet (albeit possibly rather slower) . Local models are chasing the online frontier models pretty hard. So worst case, that's the fallback (FWIW, YMMV) edit: Qwen-3.5 MoE (and other local MoE models like it)

Post by 8cvor6j844qw_d6 » Wed, Apr 15, 2026, 11:26 AM UTC

LoganDark wrote: post #35

Mordisquitos wrote: post #22

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Those are reasons for banning after verification, not reasons for requesting identity verification in the first place.

They request ID for bans so that they can ban you personally. ID checks may as well be a sign that you've already been banned and they're fishing for ways to make the ban harder to evade. Venmo does the same thing.

Post by RobotToaster » Wed, Apr 15, 2026, 11:28 AM UTC

a2128 wrote: post #37

daliusd wrote: post #15

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I can guess at least one valid: * preventing North Korea, China, Russian, Iran and etc. actors from accessing service. They absolutely use workarounds to access AI, e.g. I bet there are companies who are proxy between Anthropic and those countries. I imagine there will be quite some false positives while identifying those.

This will do absolutely nothing to prevent those actors from accessing Claude... they already recruit young unemployed Americans to do proxy job interviews[0][1], etc. They'll just pay young unemployed Americans to do verification for them. [0] https://www.tradingview.com/news/cointelegraph:6192f38e3094b... [1] https://youtube.com/watch?v=QebpXFM1ha0

Post by Mashimo » Wed, Apr 15, 2026, 11:32 AM UTC

areoform wrote: post #36

Why is this necessary if I'm paying Anthropic with a credit card? A credit card requires a) credit worthiness, b) a line of credit from a bank based on the individual's identity, and c) regular payments. Why isn't a credit card enough? Why can't certain features be paywalled? If someone is doing something deeply unethical with Claude, let's say they're using a clade of Claudes to launch cyberattacks, then doesn't Ant…