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Re: Identity verification on Claude

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Post by tjwebbnorfolk »

ignoramous wrote: post #445
Aurornis wrote: post #437

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Despite what’s being implied everywhere, this ID check page has been there since April. Wayback Machine if you don’t believe me: https://web.archive.org/web/20260415064244/https://support.c... > As a non-US citizen Opus 4.8 is the best American LLM I will ever have access to. That's no longer up for debate or question. This is a crazy conclusion for a situation that isn’t even two weeks old. LLMs are not the first te…

> This is a crazy conclusion for a situation that isn’t even two weeks old... I think, this is all a culmination of rapidly eroding trust and soft power between US & its allies for the past 3y.

Over-reliance on a single LLM is probably not a good idea, no matter who owns it.

Re: Identity verification on Claude

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Post by cloverich »

dgellow wrote: post #404
yreg wrote: post #361

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Isnt your account linked to your bank card anyway? The problem is storing the chat logs.

That makes the need for id verification even worse. They already know who is paying

They dont know whether they are a US citizen. Or rather cant defensibly prove it.

Re: Identity verification on Claude

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Post by byzantinegene »

lyime wrote: post #310
data-ottawa wrote: post #154

The US is really shooting itself in the foot here. The restrictions on LLM models like Fable has created a viable international LLM market where it was difficult to justify investment two weeks ago. As a non-US citizen Opus 4.8 is the best American LLM I will ever have access to. That's no longer up for debate or question. Each month that I pay Anthropic is now a depreciating value -- I'm paying for models I'll never…

You underestimate how large the US market is.

you understimate how large the international market is, for example, half of google's revenue is generated from international markets.

Re: Identity verification on Claude

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Post by codehotter »

Aurornis wrote: post #418

This page has been up since April: https://web.archive.org/web/20260415064244/https://support.c... I see a lot of comments linking this to Fable or implying that the existence of this page is triggering them to cancel. You should know that this help page and their ID process are not new. This page has been up for many months. It gets discussed from time to time, including in past HN posts.

The identity verification support page says 'updated this week' but that is just an update to the appeals process. https://www.diffchecker.com/HuY8QMOX/

There was, however, also a change to the privacy policy, effective July 8, 2026. See https://privacy.claude.com/en/articles/10301952-updates-to-o... It now says:

"Verification Data: In certain circumstances, we may ask you to verify your age or identity. If you choose to do so, data we will collect includes, depending on the method: an image of your government-issued identity document and the information appearing on it (such as your ID number and date of birth); your image in photo or video form, facial geometry templates (which may be considered ‘biometric data’ in some jurisdictions); and the result of the verification (for example, whether your age meets the applicable threshold)."

The previous (Jan 2026) version did not have this.

An Anthropic employee suggests on X that this is just so users flagged for potentially fraudulent activity have a way to get their account reinstated and it is unrelated to the Fable rollout.

https://x.com/trq212/status/2068793885535694858

Re: Identity verification on Claude

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Post by root_axis »

furyofantares wrote: post #493
dalemhurley wrote: post #432

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why, is there any evidence to support your claim?

Polymarket gives 32% chance the ban on Fable is lifted this month. Even if it's never lifted, probably GPT 5.6 will be better than Opus 4.8 and they won't hype it up as too dangerous to release before releasing it. Open models will catch up to Opus 4.8 and state of the art will, most likely, continue to get better. It won't be long before "better than Opus 4.8" is not a big deal.

> Polymarket gives 32% chance the ban on Fable is lifted this month.

Totally meaningless.

Re: Identity verification on Claude

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Post by cryptonector »

inlined wrote: post #528
matheusmoreira wrote: post #503

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Fair point. The fact that even americans got cut off from Fable is definitely ironic though. I suppose that's going to be fixed now that they're implementing identity verification. And even that runs smack into the concept of freedom since freedom under surveillance isn't real.

But given the hoopla about how a driver’s license isn’t valid in the SAVE act because it doesn’t prove you’re a US citizen, how is drivers license verification going to satisfy the US national requirement here?

It probably won't. It will probably have to be a U.S. passport.

Re: Identity verification on Claude

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Post by hoytschermerhrn »

Aurornis wrote: post #437
data-ottawa wrote: post #154

The US is really shooting itself in the foot here. The restrictions on LLM models like Fable has created a viable international LLM market where it was difficult to justify investment two weeks ago. As a non-US citizen Opus 4.8 is the best American LLM I will ever have access to. That's no longer up for debate or question. Each month that I pay Anthropic is now a depreciating value -- I'm paying for models I'll never…

Despite what’s being implied everywhere, this ID check page has been there since April. Wayback Machine if you don’t believe me: https://web.archive.org/web/20260415064244/https://support.c... > As a non-US citizen Opus 4.8 is the best American LLM I will ever have access to. That's no longer up for debate or question. This is a crazy conclusion for a situation that isn’t even two weeks old. LLMs are not the first te…

I’m a US citizen and absolutely will not be uploading additional information just to use a company’s models. This effectively kills my usage of anthropic for anything beyond their 4.8 models.

Re: Identity verification on Claude

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Post by Frannky »

So they will be able to know how each person thinks, block capabilities they want to block, boycott what they want to boycott, and influence perspective on reality.

Fortunately they are Anthropic and so as the name tells, they will care about humans. And so we can trust them they won't try to push agendas that require constant propaganda to be accepted, since it never happened before right?

De platforming, debanking, misinformation, hate speech, anyone?

Re: Identity verification on Claude

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Post by deanishe »

ignoramous wrote: post #445
Aurornis wrote: post #437

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Despite what’s being implied everywhere, this ID check page has been there since April. Wayback Machine if you don’t believe me: https://web.archive.org/web/20260415064244/https://support.c... > As a non-US citizen Opus 4.8 is the best American LLM I will ever have access to. That's no longer up for debate or question. This is a crazy conclusion for a situation that isn’t even two weeks old. LLMs are not the first te…

> This is a crazy conclusion for a situation that isn’t even two weeks old... I think, this is all a culmination of rapidly eroding trust and soft power between US & its allies for the past 3y.

What allies?

You threatened to invade Canada and Greenland.

You surely don't think you're coming back from that?

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