A friend and I have been talking about our ChatGPT usage and apparently he used to screw with ChatGPT a lot, used to say the most heinous stuff (don’t worry he didn’t cross into illegal material territory or that sort of stuff) but still like did stuff that would generally be considered a severe violation on the platform. He reckons that not long after he then deleted his account and successfully returned with the exact same email address, phone number etc. I have a feeling he’s not telling the truth about it because surely OpenAI wouldn’t just let a user commit severe violations on their platform only to be able to just delete and return after it on the same identifiers, they seem too sophisticated to just allow that to happen. Especially when we take into account that one of the reasons the 30 day cooldown exists is for abuse monitoring, as well as the fact that they can retain data related to abuse after the 30 days, on top of them only allowing email and other identifier reuse if the account was fully deleted and the wasn’t associated with policy violations? Am I correct here or is this a genuine flaw in the system? Like surely they could easily just ban the identifiers.