You will be reported to DHS if you ask Claude about Maven and the bombing of girls schools in Iran.
Prove it
That's probably half foreshadowing, half joke.
Claude may require identity verification in some cases
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Re: Claude may require identity verification in some cases
#72Persona is bad news. They should not be using Persona. This is bad. > Your ID and selfie are collected and held by Persona, not on Anthropic's systems. Anthropic can access verification records through Persona's platform when needed—for example, to review an appeal—but we don't copy or store those images ourselves. It's unacceptable that this data is persisted at all , let alone that it's persisted by Persona . > Per…
It sounds like if Anthro suddenly asks for verification you should immediately delete your account.
Re: Claude may require identity verification in some cases
#73Why 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…
> Why is this necessary if I'm paying Anthropic with a credit card? You can have a CC / Visa / MasterCard when you are under 18 years old, but you need to be 18 or older for Claude. That would be one reasons why CC does not work. Or maybe they suspect you opened a second account after your first got banned for whatever reason. Like you said it's easy to get a new card.
Incidentally I checked my local laws and it's not possible in any of the banks (UK) to add the underage person to my CC account due to their ToS and perhaps regulations.
Debit? Sure, some banks will issue them to 11-12 year olds. Credit? Apparently not.
Re: Claude may require identity verification in some cases
#74Earlier quoted context omitted.
> It is frequently said that programming directly is obsolete Who says this?
I mean, you can disagree with the sentiment (I certainly do), but there are still an awful lot of people saying it.
I thought it was true too, for a couple of months. Then the honeymoon phase ended and now I only use Claude to write commit message drafts (which I rewrite myself) and review PRs.
Re: Claude may require identity verification in some cases
#75You will be reported to DHS if you ask Claude about Maven and the bombing of girls schools in Iran.
as they say on other sites, "pics or it didn't happen"
Re: Claude may require identity verification in some cases
#76It's worrying that they don't specify in which cases they require identity checks.
Just a few days ago, on Friday, my 15 year old son had his Claude account suspended with a demand for ID to prove he is 18 or older. He had his own Claude Max subscription (he out-earns me fairly frequently in his circle of gaming programmers), and was unaware Anthropic had a must-be-18 rule, as was I. Their email said "Our team found signals that your account was used by a child. This breaks our rules, so we paused…
> he out-earns me fairly frequently in his circle of gaming programmers
Can you expand on this? Your teenage son makes more money than you do professionally, by vibe coding video games?
Re: Claude may require identity verification in some cases
#77Earlier quoted context omitted.
Just a few days ago, on Friday, my 15 year old son had his Claude account suspended with a demand for ID to prove he is 18 or older. He had his own Claude Max subscription (he out-earns me fairly frequently in his circle of gaming programmers), and was unaware Anthropic had a must-be-18 rule, as was I. Their email said "Our team found signals that your account was used by a child. This breaks our rules, so we paused…
... 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?
Yes, today’s kids should instead learn to be influencers.
This is genuine advice I’ve seen from high profile business types. We’re fucked in the sense our children will be made to be attention whores online.
Re: Claude may require identity verification in some cases
#78Earlier quoted context omitted.
Just a few days ago, on Friday, my 15 year old son had his Claude account suspended with a demand for ID to prove he is 18 or older. He had his own Claude Max subscription (he out-earns me fairly frequently in his circle of gaming programmers), and was unaware Anthropic had a must-be-18 rule, as was I. Their email said "Our team found signals that your account was used by a child. This breaks our rules, so we paused…
> he out-earns me fairly frequently in his circle of gaming programmers Can you expand on this? Your teenage son makes more money than you do professionally, by vibe coding video games?
Who said anything about "vibe coding"? Using coding tools like Claude Code as just another tool in the belt is something the overwhelming bulk of professional devs do now (and given that my son managed to find a number of clients paying for his work, he qualifies as professional). Pejorative "vibe coding" nonsense doesn't change this.
Re: Claude may require identity verification in some cases
#79Earlier quoted context omitted.
> he out-earns me fairly frequently in his circle of gaming programmers Can you expand on this? Your teenage son makes more money than you do professionally, by vibe coding video games?
Who said anything about "vibe coding"? Using coding tools like Claude Code as just another tool in the belt is something the overwhelming bulk of professional devs do now (and given that my son managed to find a number of clients paying for his work, he qualifies as professional). Pejorative "vibe coding" nonsense doesn't change this.
Call it whatever you want then, I'm still interested in the question at hand – your son makes more money than you do professionally, using Claude Code to make something video game related?
Re: Claude may require identity verification in some cases
#80Earlier quoted context omitted.
Who said anything about "vibe coding"? Using coding tools like Claude Code as just another tool in the belt is something the overwhelming bulk of professional devs do now (and given that my son managed to find a number of clients paying for his work, he qualifies as professional). Pejorative "vibe coding" nonsense doesn't change this.
Call it whatever you want then, I'm still interested in the question at hand – your son makes more money than you do professionally, using Claude Code to make something video game related?
He makes solutions for people and they pay him money for doing so. I mean...pretty much exactly how we all operate? He's excellent at networking and has built an enormous connection tree.