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Anthropic Adds Bans to Claude Usage PolicyRules updated on October 8 address election interference, weapons software, surveillance, and extreme verbal abuse of the model.
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- The policy updated Thursday prohibits users from engaging in election interference, weapons software, and surveillance.
- Prolonged verbal abuse is prohibited only in extreme cases of repeated, purposeless cruelty; frustration and criticism remain allowed.
- Since August, Claude has ended conversations involving persistent harmful behavior; the policy now also prohibits continuing them.
- Additional provisions ban deceptive campaigns using fake accounts or fabricated news outlets, along with deceiving voters and disrupting elections.
The policy update is meant to apply only in extreme cases, where users repeatedly act cruelly toward our models, with no discernible purpose. It does not apply to common versions of user frustration, pushback, dark creative themes, or model testing and research.— Anthropic policy update post
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