Why do most LLMs insist on a login, even for a free trial?

I entered a question to try it, but as soon as I hit enter it wants my phone number for a login. No thanks.

cvakiitho 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Think about it for 2 seconds.

	▲	HarHarVeryFunny 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		There's many obvious excuses ... Are you claiming a necessity ?

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Philpax 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Free use without registration -> free to anyone and anything -> easy to abuse at scale, with no way to restrict use.

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nicce an hour ago | parent [-]

You can limit it a lot to minimize the abuse. In free entrypoint, set token and context limits to be very small. Limit to 2 prompts per IP or something every X hour. That is already a substantial limit where bypassing might not provide much benefits.

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xaqfox an hour ago | parent [-]

Residential proxies are too prevalent for IP address limits to work effectively.

	▲	nicce 12 minutes ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Is there some public research that how often, for example, people download malware that allows this?
	▲	HarHarVeryFunny an hour ago \| parent \| prev [-]
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