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.
They first introduced it 4 months ago. Back then I saw several people saying "soon it will be all of the providers".
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.
Either they want the data so bad or they vibed the legal requirements. When I pay online in my country I have to identify myself with a digital id that is legally valid for a lot things. Anything from bank and stock transactions to tax declaration and even accessing medical records.
