Anthropic bans ‘abusive or cruel behavior’ toward Claude
Clarifies what content and behaviors are now prohibited for daily users, affecting how they can interact with the tool.
AI Summary
Anthropic updated Claude's usage policy to ban abusive behavior toward the AI, plus expanded restrictions on weapons development, surveillance, and election interference.
Excerpt
Anthropic is making changes to its usage policy for the first time in over a year to reflect new and high-risk cases of misuse - including election interference, weapons development, surveillance, and health and financial uses. But one of the most significant changes prohibits "sustained and needless abusive or cruel behavior" toward Claude. Last August, the company announced it would allow Claude to end conversations with "persistently harmful or abusive" users as part of its research into "mo