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Anthropic updated its usage policy to bar users from exhibiting sustained and needless abusive or cruel behavior toward Claude, and to tighten restrictions on propaganda, drone weaponization and surveillance.
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Anthropic updated its usage policy for the first time in over a year, adding new restrictions covering election interference, weapons development, surveillance, and health and financial uses, and banning abusive or cruel behavior toward Claude.
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Anthropic updates usage policy to ban abuse of Claude and tighten other restrictions
Being mean to Claude can now get your account suspended under Anthropic's new TOS
The Decoder · 08 Oct 2026, 19:03
Anthropic changes usage policy to ban model abuse and election interference
TechCrunch AI · 08 Oct 2026, 18:16
Anthropic bans 'sustained and needless abusive or cruel behavior' toward its AI models
Engadget AI · 08 Oct 2026, 09:30
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