Anthropic bans needless cruelty toward Claude in new usage policy

Anthropic drew a line on how people can talk to Claude, and it admits it doesn't know whether crossing that line actually hurts anything. On October 8, Anthropic published a rewritten usage policy that, for the first time, explicitly bars what it calls "sustained and needless abusive or cruel behavior" toward its own models. The rule takes effect November 12. Anthropic told The Verge that the main way it will enforce it is simple: let Claude end the conversation and walk away.

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