In brief Anthropic added passport and selfie verification for Claude—no other major AI chatbot currently requires the same. The move comes weeks after millions joined Claude specifically over OpenAI's surveillance deal. Verification data goes to Persona's servers, not Anthropic's, and won't be used to train models. Anthropic quietly published identity verification requirements for Claude this week, asking certain users to hand over a government-issued photo ID and a live selfie. Something its co...