[metacritic12]

In practice it was a targetted ban probably because this video got traction.

Analogously, with a lot of grey area stuff, a person can almost surely get away with it ... but not if they post it online and it gets attention.

[whimsicalism]

they can just buy openai credits with crypto and no kyc and they are immediately unban able

[mmcwilliams]

They're perfectly bannable if OpenAI is able to flag certain prompts and certain client IPs. Payment modes and accounts aren't the only indicators here. The real problem is building such a brittle system that it can be cut off by your SaaS supplier or is rendered useless by an internet outage.