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Isn’t available in Ukraine. Why?.. And it’s not like a “temporary error, please try again”. It just directly states “nope, not for Ukraine”. “Open”AI.

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I have a nagging feeling this is their way of "preventing" fake war pictures from cropping up.

I wonder if Russia is blocked as well. And Belarus.

If they want to prevent fake war pictures, it should be done with their NSFW filter. Not with blocking the whole (suffering!) country.

I doubt it - GPT-3 is also restricted for users in Ukraine.

Well, those who want to generate those images will use Stable Diffusion. If this is really their reasoning, they'll just hurt themselves - not really a bad thing given how manipulative OpenAI has been acting.

I've just tried with a VPN and got to phone number screen with an IP geolocated near Kyiv. What's the error you're getting?

After confirming the ukraininan phone every page gives the same error - "OpenAI's API is not available in your country." The same goes for GPT-3. They just banned our country as a whole. For a ukraininan right now this situation is admittedly not the biggest problem in my life. Still don't see a reason for OpenAI to restrict our access.

Alright, that's indeed incredibly foolish of them. I hope the new HIMARS package will sweeten the insult at least a bit :^)

This one:

> Something went wrong > OpenAI's API is not available in your country.

I used “login with google”, and this is an error that I immediately got, haven’t got to the stage where they want my phone number.

FYI, there is filter that prevents to generate political content and other nasty stuff

Yes, I know about their political and NSFW filter. But why block Ukraine? Do they think that everyone from Ukraine will 100% use this for generating dead Putins, or what?

I just can’t think of any good reason to do that. I can think of one bad, though

> generating dead Putins, or what?

To be fair, the first ever prompt I tried out with an AI image generator like this is "putin eaten alive by pigs" :) It's hard to refrain.

Lol, it is. I almost woke up my kids with laughter when I read your comment :)

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