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Tell HN: You now need a government id in order to create an Anthropic account

A Hacker News user posting as I_am_tiberius reported that creating an Anthropic account now requires a government ID, with the signup flow redirecting to identity-verification site withpersona.com to submit a selfie with a passport. The poster said Anthropic had requested a phone number two years earlier, which the poster already considered excessive. The post, submitted 11 minutes before capture, had 4 points on Hacker News.

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| | | 4 points by I_am_tiberius11 minutes ago |hide |past |favorite |discuss | | | | I don't know if this is totally new, but I just can't believe it. I remember that they requested a telephone number 2 years ago, which was already way too much. But now they forward you to a scetchy website called withpersona.com and want you to make a selife with your passport. |

source & further reading
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