On November 8, a number of technical communities revealed OpenAI's sudden large-scale account ban. A large number of users reported on Reddit and the domestic developer community that ChatGPT accounts were suspended without warning, including Pro users with a monthly subscription fee of 200 US dollars. Judging from user feedback, most of the blocked accounts in this round did not receive a pre-email reminder, and users were directly prompted when they logged in that account had been deleted or suspended. Bans are triggered by batch identification in the system backend, and are not manually reviewed one by one. The hardest hit areas concentrated on low-price subscription accounts, batch registration of accounts, shared payment cards or devices, transit reverse access, API credit resale, and accounts suspected of model distillation. There are also quite a few users who reported that they used it in compliance on a daily basis, but were banned because the system determined that it was linked to the blocked account. Previously, OpenAI had a precedent of batch blocking; as early as 2023, the platform centrally blocked a number of accounts. Since then, OpenAI has also cleaned up large-scale distillation and developer accounts of companies and developers that misuse APIs several times. Up to now, OpenAI has not issued a unified explanation for recent account suspensions reported by users, nor has it disclosed the specific number of people affected.
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On November 8, a number of technical communities revealed OpenAI's sudden large-scale account ban. A large number of users reported on Reddit and the domestic developer community that ChatGPT accounts were suspended without warning, including Pro users with a monthly subscription fee of 200 US dollars. Judging from user feedback, most of the blocked accounts in this round did not receive a pre-email reminder, and users were directly prompted when they logged in that account had been deleted or suspended. Bans are triggered by batch identification in the system backend, and are not manually reviewed one by one. The hardest hit areas concentrated on low-price subscription accounts, batch registration of accounts, shared payment cards or devices, transit reverse access, API credit resale, and accounts suspected of model distillation. There are also quite a few users who reported that they used it in compliance on a daily basis, but were banned because the system determined that it was linked to the blocked account. Previously, OpenAI had a precedent of batch blocking; as early as 2023, the platform centrally blocked a number of accounts. Since then, OpenAI has also cleaned up large-scale distillation and developer accounts of companies and developers that misuse APIs several times. Up to now, OpenAI has not issued a unified explanation for recent account suspensions reported by users, nor has it disclosed the specific number of people affected.
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