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You also have to count the cost of having to verify your identity to use the API

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It's only a video face scan and your legal ID to SamA, what could possibly go wrong

Oh they haven’t integrated the retinal scan tech yet eh?

Wait, is this real?

Yes, [1] though a bit vague given "Some organizations may already have access to these models and capabilities without having to go through the Verification process."

I never verified but have access to all models including image gen, for example.

[1] https://help.openai.com/en/articles/10910291-api-organizatio... [2] https://help.openai.com/en/articles/10362446-api-reasoning-m...

Let's not forget that SamA's other business venture is creating the World's largest biometric database.

So it's all for sale the moment the VC money stops keeping that unprofitable company with overpaid engineers afloat.

To clarify, you need to verify identity to use the GPT-5 API?

I understand for image generation, but why for text generation?

Because they want to contribute to the fascism of mass surveillance

OpenRouter (and potentially Azure in the near future) are options if verifying for enterprise API use is too hard to stomach.

Neither will be. Both OpenRouter and Azure (through requiring and enterprise agreement, only available to large orgs with 500+ devices) require it for o3 to this very day, and already do so for GPT-5, the main model under discussion in this thread (sure, not mini and nano, but those aren't where 95% of the attention is focused on).

openrouter requires an openai api key.

Where did you get that from? I am currently using GPT-5 via OpenRouter and never added an OpenAI key to my account there. Same for any previous OpenAI model. BYOK is an option, not a necessity.

You had to use your own key for o3 at least.

> Note that BYOK is required for this model. Set up here: https://openrouter.ai/settings/integrations

https://openrouter.ai/api/v1/models

> {"id":"openai/gpt-5-chat","canonical_slug":"openai/gpt-5-chat-2025-08-07","hugging_face_id":"","name":"OpenAI: GPT-5 Chat","created":1754587837,"description":"GPT-5 Chat is designed for advanced, natural, multimodal, and context-aware conversations for enterprise applications.","context_length":400000,"architecture":{"modality":"text+image->text","input_modalities":["file","image","text"],"output_modalities":["text"],"tokenizer":"GPT","instruct_type":null},"pricing":{"prompt":"0.00000125","completion":"0.00001","request":"0","image":"0","audio":"0","web_search":"0","internal_reasoning":"0","input_cache_read":"0.000000125"},"top_provider":{"context_length":400000,"max_completion_tokens":128000,"is_moderated":true},"per_request_limits":null,"supported_parameters":["max_tokens","response_format","seed","structured_outputs"]},

If you look at the JSON you linked, it does not enforce BYOK for openai/gpt-5-chat, nor for openai/gpt-5-mini or openai/gpt-5-nano.

Did I say GPT-5? I said o3. :) That was a rebuttal to you saying you have never needed to add your key to use an OpenAI model before.

Fair, I should not have said "any".

It does for the model this thread is about: openai/gpt-5.

What's openai/gpt-5 vs openai/gpt-5-chat?

you can also use https://nano-gpt.com/ if privacy is necessary

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