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Hair trigger account deactivation after a file-edit request appears to have included benchmark text - then closed my clarifying appeal as “duplicate"

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My OpenAI account was recently shown as "deleted or deactivated" - hopefully temporarily, because based on what I’ve now verified, I did not intentionally use OpenAI’s model to ask for anything prohibited. At first, I assumed I had made a mistake: I use Pi Agent with a variety of hosted and local m…

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  1. 2026-08-30 06:24 · r/OpenAI
    Hair trigger account deactivation after a file-edit request appears to have included benchmark text - then closed my clarifying appeal as “duplicate"

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