GoKawiilAnthropic revises Claude usage policy to bar model abuse, election interference
Anthropic updated its usage policy on Thursday, adding explicit bans on election interference, weapons software, and surveillance. The policy also now formally prohibits users from engaging in prolonged, cruel verbal abuse of Claude, building on an August update that let the model end harmful conversations. Anthropic says the abuse rule targets only extreme, purposeless cruelty, not frustration, pushback, dark creative writing, or testing.