Following the wave of bans in early April, ChatGPT set off another round of large-scale bans! Since May 27, many ChatGPT users have reported that their accounts have been blocked, even the Plus account.
If you put it 3 months ago, ChatGPT has just attracted attention in the cross-border seller circle, and there are not many people who use it, even if the account is blocked, it does not matter. But now most cross-border operations or artists are already familiar with the use of ChatGPT, almost as a "third hand", and large-scale bans will have a certain impact on their basic operations. "The blocked account has opened a lot of plug-in permissions, the key is that a lot of copy and dialogue are saved, and those can't be retrieved, sad..." said one operator helplessly.
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The account was blocked for suspicious activity
According to the news, since May 27, a large number of users have received an email from the OpenAl team, prompting that there is suspicious activity on their ChatGPT account, in order to protect the security of the platform, OpenAl has officially returned and canceled the user's subscription, and users will not be able to continue to use the ChatGPTPlus service.
(Screenshot of the banned email sent by the OpenAl team to users)
"OpenAl began to ban the number on a large scale again, and in the morning, about dozens of group friends reported that the number was gone, and many of the ones who had charged Plus were also blocked."
"Many of my friends' ChatGPTPlus accounts were blocked. Their own number is alive, but every day trembling. I will send a hi to ChatGPT every day to see if it will respond. I am also afraid to open my Gmail mailbox and receive a refund email from OpenAl. ”
"I used it well yesterday, but when I open it today, I can't log in, it's the same as opening a blind box."
"What luck, early in the morning to see my chatGPT banned, this time it was refunded. Why? Is it because Taobao pays on behalf of me or because I asked it to parse the pdf text yesterday and it was completely crashed? ”
Judging from the above netizens and sellers, the scope of this ban tide is large. According to Hugo Cross-border, OpenAl launched a wave of bans as early as the end of March and early April, mainly in Asia, and there was no official warning or response. At that time, the industry speculated that there were two main reasons: "batch registration" and "API call blocking". For example, if a person has multiple accounts to access API services, if it is detected that the same IP address or similar IP addresses keep changing APIs to make requests, it violates the OpenAIAPI usage rules.
However, this time the ban, OpenAl only closed the account, but returned the user's subscription fee to the original way, some netizens laughed and said, "This is the most proud company I have ever seen, really do not charge money, plus also a large number of bans, a word to close the account, refund." ”
OpenAl said in the email that the platform attaches great importance to fraud prevention and wants to ensure that the platform is a safe and secure place for all users, and if users believe that the blocked action is wrong, they can submit an appeal to restore their account. Amazon operators have filed complaints, but have not received an official response.
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Virtual credit cards may be risky
Some industry insiders speculate that the ban may be related to virtual credit cards, and it is recommended that if the operation staff is a member charged with a virtual credit card and the account is still there, it is recommended to export important chat records and be ready to change the number and start again.
According to Hugo's cross-border understanding, ChatGPT uses StripeCheckout, Stripe's collection service, which theoretically accepts credit and debit cards from all large bank card brands such as VISA, MasterCard, American Express, JCB, and Discover, but it must be a US credit card, and domestic dual-currency cards and full-currency cards cannot be used at present.
In addition, OpenAI can also identify insecure payments through elements such as IP fraud and the use of proxies.
It is reported that OpenAl may expand the scope of account banning, in addition to Plus users, virtual credit card payment users, IO address frequent change users, ordinary users and Poe users have also begun to be affected. Some industry insiders analyzed that the high probability is the reason for virtual payment, but also pay attention to IP problems, it is best to use the same IP node when using, and avoid using Asian IP.
It is reported that many domestic users will use Depay virtual credit cards, Depay claims to hold a US MSB license and is subject to Fincen (Financial Crimes Enforcement Bureau) compliance supervision. This time, many users who use Depay virtual card payment have been affected.
"I received a blocked text message at one o'clock this morning, and I paid with Depay on May 23. It is not known when the money will be returned to the account. Luckily, I also have a ChatGPT account, registered with Gmail. At present, I dare not open plus, wait and see. ”
"I don't know if it's an IP problem or a Depay problem, but it's all transferred to the appstore to pay, or it's blocked." Re-register one, pay with a new Appleid, and see if it will be blocked. I feel more like it's the previous credit card problem. Because the refund is the money that was subscribed with Depay in March. Now the trouble is that the subscription with the AppStore can only be canceled, and there is no way to pay for the new account, you must change the AppleID to pay. Another user whose account was blocked broke the news.
Another similarity to the last wave of bans is that many ChatGPTPlus users were also blocked near renewal. A seller said that he opened a Plus account at the end of April, which expired in a few days according to the time, and as a result, the account was blocked today, and he was repaid, which is equivalent to a month in vain.
Another seller found that before being blocked, his ChatGPT account used more Chinese Q&A, and it is currently impossible to judge whether this is the direct cause of the blocking, but he believes that it may be listed as a key target for detection.
In the face of ChatGPT's official ban, a senior operator said that he could apply for OpenAI services from Microsoft Azure because Microsoft clearly supported domestic users. Although the API address given is Azure, a conversion map with Cloudflare can become the official API address of OpenAI. It should be noted that Microsoft requires enterprise email users to use OpenAIAPI provided by Azure, and individual users cannot use it.
Of course, in order to avoid being banned, many operation personnel have also summed up some experience, such as using more English conversations, if you have frequently used Chinese before, it is recommended to use English or other language dialogue training for a period of time. In addition, try to register an account yourself, if the demand is not particularly large, you can use the web version, the probability of the web version being blocked is small, and the probability of writing an email appeal is large. Moreover, it is not recommended to buy ChatGPT accounts on domestic e-commerce platforms, and the chance of being blocked is extremely high.