Why is ChatGTP blocked?How to appeal the deactivation of unblocked account when the access is denied?

Starting March 2023, 3, OpenAIA large number of accounts were blocked for users in the Asian region, especially for IP addresses in Taiwan, Japan, and Hong Kong. The hit rate was as high as 40%. Newly registered ChatGTP accounts and Plus cannot be used.

With the increasing number of bans, people find that the bans seem to be untargeted, whether they are buying Plus or just using the API, they may be banned.

OpenAI has not yet made an official statement, so the reason for the ban is uncertain, mainly divided into two types: "large-scale registration" and "API call blocked":

1. On the one hand, many people think that the hardest-hit areas of the ban are the large-scale registered accounts before.Many netizens said that their manually registered accounts are still there, but someE-commerceThe account purchased on the platform has been disabled.
2. On the other hand, some people speculate that the previous account behavior may be suspected of API abuse. For example, if a person uses multiple accounts to obtain API services, if it is detected that the API is constantly changing and sending requests on the same IP or similar IP, it will violate OpenAI API usage. rule.

April 2023, 4 is the expiration date of OpenAI API Key's free calling quota. Some people worry that a large number of accounts will purchase tokens in the past few days, which will lead to API abuse, so a batch of accounts will be banned first.

In addition to these reasons related to the account itself, there are also people fromChat GPTCutting into the analysis of the usefulness of ChatGPT, it is believed that ChatGPT can improve work efficiency, so the work efficiency drops sharply after the account is banned.

How to judge whether the OpenAI account is banned?

It should be noted that many accounts can still be used as usual, so don't panic too much, and carefully distinguish whether your account can still be used.

The judgment method is roughly as follows:

If the login status is blocked, and the prompt "Unable to load historical information" appears, or "The content entered in the input box cannot be sent", the account may be blocked.

If it is not banned in the login state, then an error will be reported during the login process:

"Account disabled. If you need assistance, please contact us through our Help Center." (Error=Account disabled).

Oops!
Account deactivated. Please contact us through
our help center at help.openai.com if you need
assistance. (error-account_deactivated)
Go back

If there is a prompt of "Unable to load historical information" or "Unable to send the content in the input box", it may be the reason why the account is blocked.

However, if other error messages appear, such as "OpenAI's services not available in your country"Wait... it's not necessarily an account problem.

Why is the ChatGTP account blocked?

Some people speculate that the reason why the API call is blocked is that the behavior of the previous account is suspected of API abuse.

For example, if a person obtains API services through multiple accounts, and is detected to be under the same IP address or a similar IP address, constantly changing APIs to make requests, it will violate the OpenAI API usage rules.

• In addition, April 2023, 4 is the date when the free calling quota of OpenAI API Key expires.This speculation is not unfounded, as Midjourney has previously stopped using it for free, partly due to overuse.
• On March 2023, 3, the founder and CEO of Midjourney stated that in order to avoid paying, many people registered a large number of new accounts and only used free credits, which exacerbated the shortage of GPUs and affected the services of paying users.
• Of course, these are all speculations based on problems with the account itself.

It is reported that due to excessive demand, ChatGPT even stopped Plus payment.

Although ChatGPT has become more and more popular, since it was developed by an American company, we are easily restricted when using it.

At the end of each month, OpenAI will make a big move. They made a risk control adjustment and banned a number of accounts. They banned many accounts in Asia, and even some Plus accounts were also banned.

Chinese people are very good at plucking wool. Among the more than 1 million users of ChatGPT, we estimate that there may be 2 to 3 million Chinese users, and a large part of them are used to pluck wool.

How does ChatGPT appeal that the unblocked account is disabled?

If you are using an account, please note the following three points:

1. Do not use Asian nodes.
2. Do not replace nodes frequently in the near future.
3. Do not use the same node to log in to multiple accounts.

The solution to the unsupported method of the OpenAI registration area:

• A global proxy must be used, a proxy for a US server has been tested available.
• 加入Chen Weiliangblog'sTelegramChannel, there is such a channel in the sticky listsoftwaretool ▼

• SuggestUse a browser (incognito mode) to access.

Some people say that if your account is blocked, you can use someone else's ChatGPT account to write an appeal email to OpenAI's customer service support team, with the subject of the email "Deactivated user appeal, along with the reason for reactivating your account.

• Please express in English exactly how important your account is to you, and explain that you have not committed any violations, and you will not have any in the future, hoping to unblock it.

In this way, your account may be unblocked, and now there is only one way to try to appeal for unblocking, but we cannot make any guarantees whether this method is effective.

In addition, we also asked the ChatGPT chatbot why the account was blocked:

Q: If the ChatGPT account is blocked, what are the reasons?

Answer: ChatGPT is an AI language model developed by OpenAI, it is not an actual account, so it cannot be banned.butYes, if the account using ChatGPT's API or service is banned, the possible reasons are:

• Violation of terms of service: If a user violates OpenAI's terms of service when using ChatGPT's API or services,OpenAI may have its account banned.
• Abuse: If the user abuses ChatGPT's API or service, such as frequent requests or using ChatGPT for bad behaviorFor this reason, OpenAI may have its account banned.
• Payment Issues: If users use ChatGPT's API or services with payment issues or fraudulent methods, OpenAI may ban their accounts.

In short, OpenAI will strictly review the behavior of users using ChatGPT's API or services to ensure that they will not be abused orUsed for improper purposes.

Free prostitution of OpenAI API, account closure is a natural phenomenon

The cost per request of OpenAI's API is very low, which can be said to be negligible.

ButPeople with poor thinking, in order to use OpenAI's API for free, will obtain API services by registering multiple free accounts.

In this case, the thinking of the rich and the thinking of the poor can form a strong contrast as follows:

1. The thinking of the poor: I just want to save money and use OpenAI’s API for free. Account closure is a natural phenomenon, and the gain outweighs the gain.
2. The thinking of the rich: understand that API developers need to recover a certain fee to maintain the stability and reliability of the service, are willing to pay for the use of the API, and actively contribute to the quality and improvement of the API.

This contrast can be described metaphorically:Just like a person eating in a restaurant, poor people only want to eat what is free; while rich people are willing to pay for their food and provide feedback to the chef to improve the quality and taste of the dishes.

In short, the idea of ​​the rich emphasizes the importance of contributing to developers and APIs, and is willing to pay for and participate in them, rather than just treating APIs as their own free resources.

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Due to 1 foreigncellphone numberCan register 2 ChatGPT accounts, those who use othercodeIf the platform registers a ChatGPT account, if a foreigncellphone numberIf a ChatGPT account has been registered once, it is more likely that the ChatGPT account will be blocked for the second time (this is because the IP address is different).

Therefore, we do not recommend using other code access platforms, but suggest that you apply eSender Hong Kong virtualUK mobile numberRegister for a ChatGPT account.

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