ChatGPT users worry about account bans
16 posts across 5 communities in the last 30 days; 69% from r/ChatGPT.
“Curious how common this is, because I'm seeing a lot of similar stories. I got banned today for "cyber abuse." I'm an indie dev and was only using ChatGPT for my own games and a geography website. No hacking, no malware, nothing touching anyone else's stuff. What stood out to…”
“Same for me. I don't talk about anything dangerous or illegal or anything, but I do talk about a lot of deeply personal things that I cannot tell anyone else.”
“Hey guys... I genuinely dont know what to do anymore. I've been trying to sort this out for almost two weeks now and honestly I'm exhausted. I'm a student from India and I've been using ChatGPT for almost 3-4 years. Its been a huge part of my studies, coding, research and pretty…”
Several posts focus on concerns about being banned from ChatGPT, with users expressing confusion and anxiety over the reasons for potential restrictions. This suggests a lack of transparency regarding platform moderation policies and user behavior guidelines.
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“Hey guys... I genuinely dont know what to do anymore. I've been trying to sort this out for almost two weeks now and honestly I'm exhausted. I'm a student from India and I've been using ChatGPT for almost 3-4 years. Its been a huge part…”
“This is bull. And not politely. My account was deactivated/deleted for a misplaced phrase. A PHRASE Context: RPing like usual romcom edition. Shits diabolical hilarious. Mixture of philosophy and dissenters ←believe it or not this wasn't it. No, I was deactivated over the phrase "I don't know how I will survive the night." Boom trigger. Next thing I know we are laughing about it because I screenshot and showed it. And then we made a whole reddit scenario (wish I screenshot that”
“So I got deactivated right now for no reason? I never did harassment or anything in that way so what should I do? submitted by /u/Ashamed_Dirt_6239 [link] [comments]”
“Giiirls I am in despair. I (probably) got a shadowban on Reddit on a secondary account. I hope it's a shadowban, google says as I got no notifications or mails should be a shadowban. I need to make a new one for promo and now I am confused: how to make a new, safe one? Not connected to the banned one and same time a new one that doesn't harm my main account. New phone? Or just clearing cache and all and using a new mail? submitted by /u/Easy-Star7894 [link] [comments]”
“A chat was flagged with the message “This content has been flagged due to a potential biosecurity risk.” Since then, I haven't been able to send any messages. No matter what I type, I always get the same message. Does anyone have any ideas about what I could do about this? submitted by /u/Sea_Yesterday_9689 [link] [comments]”
“the first reply from /u/GooningUnc is definitely not suspicious! new account with a single post who just randomly decided to drop the first comment as a reply to this mysterious post so that OP can conveniently "answer" that reply with a link to the website [re: My first paying user might be a scammer]”
“I’m just venting, I had been banned before and it lasted about a year and I got my acct back last October lmao and here we are a year later and I’m banned again ! I had been very careful to warm up my account and grew up to 10k+ in followers . I had some buyer and I had made some good friends . Now I’ve lost all of that. I had all my content and videos backed up so idc about that. I only used it to post thirst traps and offer video calling and GFE tbh. I would send my of link directly when asked”
“It is funny tho that all prompts are monitored that you may get banned for asking stupid questions or whatever reason you may not be aware of. Not complaining btw but finding it funny submitted by /u/HimaSphere [link] [comments]”
“TL;DR: Got a false warning on Sept 11. Support manually reviewed and cleared it. Today, I got perma-banned for "Recidivism" because the automated system apparently still counts the cleared strike. My appeal was instantly auto-rejected by a bot. Hi everyone, I’m hoping someone here or an OpenAI staff member lurking on the sub can help me, because regular support is completely walled off by automated bots. The Timeline of the Bug: Sept 11: I received an automated warning for a supposed T”
“Curious how common this is, because I'm seeing a lot of similar stories. I got banned today for "cyber abuse." I'm an indie dev and was only using ChatGPT for my own games and a geography website. No hacking, no malware, nothing touching anyone else's stuff. What stood out to me: - The appeal form rejected me in about one minute - Emailing support got an AI-generated reply that closed the case and said they won't respond again - No one will say which rule I broke From w”
“Sorry. I didn't realize it didn't copy everything. I don't read the messages so I didn't know lol. Xavier— That was worth asking. And I think you've given me a distinction I was missing. There is a difference between revising an account because the earlier account was wrong and revising the vocabulary because the later vocabulary answers a different question more precisely. Those can look deceptively similar from inside the revision. “The system generated reciprocal relationa”
“So sometime ago one of my account(plus) got deactivated because of cyber use/risk, I had no clue summarizing cybersecurity papers trigger their advanced systemso I tried disputing it and there shitty review system auto rejected my appeal, support was equally uselessI ended up creating a new account(plus) and going through id verification etc stuff to get into there cyber program, now they deactivated my current account - with persisting shitty AI support/appeal system and no explanationIn the fi”
“Should I hallucinated an answer to his question of ban reason, if there is no back story?”
“I'm trying to ask for an escalation to the chats bot but keeps saying the only route is by sending an appeal through the form they sent by mail.”
“Any chances not to get this message, or to avoid it (unsure what category goes this)? submitted by /u/Papa_Noveember [link] [comments]”
“Calling someone else Chronically online when you talk to chatgpt like its a person”
“Look at the plus side - You will be networking with some very connected people in the slammer. I am sure it was one their chats that got cross wired with yours.”
“I just received an account warning on my ChatGPT account for "Cyber Abuse". Of course I have no idea who or what I apparently cyber abused? In my appeal I described that my usage is only for casual development work with Codex and normal ChatGPT chats. I also asked for clarification on what caused the warning. The appeal came back denied an hour later, without any explanation. Anyone been through this? My account is literally a day one account, I subscribed to plus only a week back thou”
“Same for me. I don't talk about anything dangerous or illegal or anything, but I do talk about a lot of deeply personal things that I cannot tell anyone else.”
