Anthropic changes usage policy to ban model abuse and election interference
- Anthropic updated its usage policy on Thursday, codifying new prohibitions on election interference, weapons software, and surveillance for the first time in over a year.
- Expanding existing bans, Anthropic now prohibits 'software and components that make weapons work' and clarifies surveillance restrictions to address attempts to use Claude for arming autonomous vehicles and tracking political dissidents.
- To combat AI-generated propaganda, the company consolidated restrictions into a ban on deceptive commercial or political campaigns, prohibiting 'about candidates or how to vote, impersonating candidates or election officials, or trying to suppress turnout.'
- Prohibiting 'sustained and needless abusive or cruel behavior' toward Claude, the company established a new rule against prolonged verbal abuse, with terminating conversations remaining the 'primary enforcement mechanism.'
- Rules may be modified for contracts with certain governmental customers if safeguards are adequate, contrasting with Microsoft's recent stance where a draft by Mustafa Suleyman claimed model welfare is wrong.
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Anthropic changes usage policy to ban model abuse and election interference
Anthropic's updated usage policy explicitly prohibits users from repeatedly abusing Claude in extreme cases, though ordinary frustration and criticism are still allowed. The new rules also address election interference, deceptive campaigns, weapons software, and surveillance.
Anthropic bans ‘abusive or cruel behavior’ towards Claude
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, […]
The rules add "forbidment of long-term and unjustified offensive or abusive treatment" to IE models, as stated in the company's statement: The rain network: news, video, air, online, archive, programme.
Being mean to Claude can now get your account suspended under Anthropic's new TOS
Anthropic's updated usage policy bans sustained abuse of Claude and tightens restrictions on propaganda, drone weaponization, and surveillance. The abuse rule builds on an approach that already lets models end some conversations and treats Claude as an entity that may deserve protection. The article Being mean to Claude can now get your account suspended under Anthropic's new TOS appeared first on The Decoder.
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