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Anthropic bans ‘abusive or cruel behavior’ toward Claude

Global Published 8 October 2026, 22:00 · archived 8 Oct 2026

Anthropic is making changes to its usage policy for the first time in over a year to reflect new and high-risk cases of misuse - including election interference, weapons development, surveillance, and health and financial uses. But one of the most significant changes prohibits "sustained and needless abusive or cruel behavior" toward Claude. Last August, […]

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