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.
Anthropic bans ‘abusive or cruel behavior’ toward Claude
The usage policy update also adds new rules addressing propaganda campaigns, surveillance, and weapon development.