Hold on, is there any bar to begin with? For OpenAI's Daybreak Blue, I only had to go through the Persona KYC to gain access. With Anthropic's I had to submit links to my profile and briefly describe my use cases, which I doubt were read by any human being but at least there's some semblance of barrier.
Yeah, I did say the bar is low :)
Daybreak Blue is the not the same thing as Daybreak Red, which has a more significant hurdle. I don't know anyone who has gotten access to Red.