This feels eerily similar to a post I've read a within the last month. Either I'm having a deja vu, it's a coincidence that the same exact story is mentioned or theres something else going on
What should be going on? A regular Google search for "openai persona verify organization" shows withpersona.com in the second search result.
Yeah ok guess I misremembered it a bit but I was curious too and found the previous one I've thought of: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43795406
Good eye! In this case, complaints are numerous. See a web search for:
openai persona verification site:community[.]openai[.]com
e.g. a thread with 36 posts beginning Apr 13:
"OpenAI Non-Announcement: Requiring identity card verification for access to new API models and capabilities"
But always good to be on look out for shenanigans :)
This is OpenAI’s fairly dystopian process, so the exact same thing happens to lots of people.
It's a concerted attempt to de-anonymise the internet. Corporate entities are jostling for position as id authorities.
This is just the process for OpenAI. It's the same process I went through as well.