Yep, and I asked ChatGPT about it and it straight up lied and said it was mandatory in EU. I will never upload a selfie to OpenAI. That is like handing over the kids to one of those hangover teenagers watching the ball pit at the local mall.
We're 4 months later, a century in LLM land, and it's the opposite. Not a single other model provider asks for this, yet OpenAI has only ramped it up, now broadening it to the entirety of GPT-5 API usage.