And it's depressing that so many people have given their phone numbers to OpenAI.
In what sense?
A huge number of people have given their real cellular number to a company on the Internet, for unknown purposes and without real justification.
There’s not very many numbers and they are all on the internet anyway. What can we do?
I don't give my cellular number out to many entities. For questionable entities, I give my Google Voice number. But OpenAI won't accept that, or any other VOIP or burner service. So, they can shove it.
I resisted this for weeks until I gave in to use ChatGPT. Le sigh.
If you don’t want to do this, you can use ChatGPT and many other models via Poe.com, with an email sign-up.
Can you use one of those throwaway SMS services for this?
I tried Google Voice and a burner app, to no avail. So "Open"AI can shove it right up their fraudulently-named ass.