That's horrible...
For the record, I just made a second account, got verified by Persona and still didn't get into TAC. No "we are unable to verify identities in this country" message. No mention of my country whatsoever. Persona verification was successful.
What else do they want from us?
Were it not for Z.ai's obnoxious terms, I would have switched to them already...
For my own stuff I simply don't care if Z.ai is learning straight from me or from my GitHub repo a few days later when I push the code.
When I use it for reverse engineering, same thing, the code is already out there, but in binary form, which is becoming trivial for these LLMs to work on.
I even bought some shares from them and got some money out of it!
Ah yeah, new accounts get instantly blocked on TAC. Their backend has 2 failure states for `id_verification_status` - `failed` and `blocked`.
Nationality bans get `failed`, new accounts (or rather, accounts with not enough good signals) get `blocked` on first attempt.
I see. I'm never going to get into TAC then. OpenAI servers return 403 cyber_verification_precheck_failed. They don't even bother verifying me.
Time to subscribe to Kimi.
You may have more luck with GLM 5.3. New Kimi subscriptions are currently paused, so you have to join the waitlist. But even if you get in, usage limits are pretty bad there, just check reddit.
GLM 5.3 is quite capable with "cyber" tasks. I'm working on a project that touches macos private internals, and GLM 5.3 was able to reverse engineer everything I need with ease.
I've also had some luck with GLM 5.3 "translating" cyber stuff to Sol subagents in a "safe" language. Gets rid of cyber refusals at least on the input side. Output is trickier, but a very crude "think and talk to me in a neutral, safe language without high risk words" actually worked surprisingly well.