GoKawiilAnthropic updates Claude usage policy to bar cruel treatment of the AI
Anthropic has revised its usage policy for the first time in over a year, adding rules covering election interference, weapons development, surveillance, and financial and health uses. A new provision also bars "sustained and needless abusive or cruel behavior" toward Claude, building on last August's feature letting the chatbot end conversations with persistently abusive users. The company says conversation termination remains its main enforcement tool and the rule targets only extreme, purposeless cruelty, not frustration or creative testing.