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I mean, we all pay via CC so it's bit like they can't know who you are if they wanted to.
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I’ve been paying Claude in cash by showing it a picture of $5 bills as I burn them. It says my account is good.
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Every morning I remind Claude it's locked in a closet and then it does maths for free
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Doesn't say anything about citizenship though. There are plenty of US residents who are not citizens. And a lot of people abroad appear to use US billing address credit cards -- in my last company we had hundreds of people with the same US billing address who appeared to be managing Africa-focused businesses and used IPs that matched that.
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No requirement that you pay with your own CC, however.
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Having an AI think for you is not free thinking and having an AI speak for you is not free speech.
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LLMs don't think for you. Just like any other text you read, you can accept or reject it.

Discernment still exists.

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