>(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.)

It'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.