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		odysseus on Jan 8, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: ChatGPT won’t replace search engines any time soon Can you use ChatGPT without a phone number yet? I thought about signing up a while ago but don't see a reason they need my phone number. Popular VOIP numbers don't work either.

crummy on Jan 8, 2023 [–]

> don't see a reason they need my phone number

Apparently it costs OpenAI a couple cents per prompt. So I assume this is an attempt to limit spam to keep costs down.

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