They can’t and Anthropic have disabled it for US users too.

Though that’s perhaps, in part, to get the govt to change its mind.

Oh, it's simple (but a total invasion of privacy): they use the same Age Check validation needed by Sony/PlayStation/whatever, but now you need to upload your passport or birth certificate, and take a picture of yourself. The API access token will be created under the name of that account owner.

...and don't think for a moment that even if you are "eligible" to use this, Anthropic won't be building a profile on you based on whatever sensitive information you provide (ya, know - to make a better UX. Trust me, bro /s).

Shove AI into everything and make everything require constant validation. I'm sure someone will also sell the solution to this constant validation.

I have a feeling I'll be completely done with the Internet in 5 years.

That's the thing isnt it. It's forcing AI companies to shut them down and only provide them to people the US government has a deal with, themselves and the elites.

We cant have power to the people.