Anthropic Is Telling Users to Stop Being Mean to Claude, For Real

Anthropic updated its usage policy effective November 12, introducing a ban on sustained cruelty toward Claude alongside stricter restrictions on election interference, weapons software, and surveillance. The update also requires human operators when AI connects to physical machinery capable of causing injury. Anthropic is giving its official rules of conduct a major overhaul starting November 12. While the updated policy packs serious guardrails against election fraud, military weapons, and illegal surveillance, the single rule catching everyone’s eye is a strict new ban on being mean to its AI model, Claude.

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