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kees99today at 1:33 PM1 replyview on HN

Not "a" bank. You (somewhat) trust your bank, I would imagine. Since you know, they have your money.

GP's hypothetical here is that Anthropic or other service provider who wants to do "age verification" could partner with (among others) your bank [1], where bank can answer yes/no to "is this user >= 18?", without revealing any other personal info to the SP. Allegedly.

[1] via an intermediary, no doubt. Trying to do a "full-mesh" of partnering of every SP with every bank directly would not scale.


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win311fwgtoday at 1:46 PM

> You (somewhat) trust your bank

For what reason?

> Since you know, they have your money.

You may trust them with your money, but does not equate to trusting them with anything else. Principle of least privilege, if you will. Anthropic has your chat data, which in many ways is more valuable than money, so if the only bar for free lying giving out your personal details is trusting a business with something of yours then why bother with this complex scheme and give Anthropic all of your personal information directly?

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