Depending on where the post author is located, whatever says on those links is worth garbage if they are located in Europe.
replyMost European countries have consumer protection agencies with teeth, and a company cannot decide on their own what they refund or not.
This may be true, but potentially involves much time, energy, and money by the author to challenge.... so for 99% of people, OpenAI will get away with it
replyThat's kinda scammy. It's not like they have to manage shipments and handle goods or anything. I wonder if they're banking on a percentage of users leaving credits unused like credit card companies do with loyalty points.
replyI don't think they care one way or the other. They haven't ever been profitable, and so they're likely going to build up data and pull the rug on all of their users by suddenly declaring themselves a data broker. They won't try this against companies that can afford to sue, but most of their users will probably start to get even more creepily targeted ads directed at them.
reply>(BTW, speculation seems to be that the verification process doesn't have anything to do with know-your-customer laws or anti-fraud, but is intended to prevent competitors like Chinese DeepSeek from having large-scale access to OpenAI's best models.)
replyIt's not because OpenAI's CEO is also the founder of WorldCoin, a project to ID everyone?
Funny though their KYC process is not done via WorldCoin. Obviously because WorldCoin KYC is useless for authorities.
replyCustomer service? In the age of AI? What have you been smoking?
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