I think I linked to the verification process on OpenAI's website in then documentation.
You need to verify your identity with a driver's license or passport with OpenAI to have access to certain things like chain of thought summaries in the API and image generation with the new model.
Nothing I can do there, you gotta verify unfortunately.
https://github.com/Alasano/gpt-image-1-playground
Openai's Playground doesn't expose all the API options.
Mine covers all options, has built in mask creation and cost tracking as well.