Anthropic Wants You to Stop Bullying Claude: Being 'Cruel or Abusive' Could Have Consequences
Source: International Business Times, Singapore Edition
Published on: 2026-10-09 12:40
Anthropic has added a rule to its usage policy prohibiting users from subjecting its AI models to "sustained and needless abusive or cruel behavior." Announced on Oct. 8, the rule takes effect on Nov. 12 and targets extreme cases of repeated cruelty without a clear purpose. Ordinary frustration, criticism, dark creative writing and model testing are explicitly excluded. The company is not claiming that Claude feels pain when someone insults it. The policy reflects Anthropic's ongoing research into whether advanced AI models could have some form of morally relevant experience, a question the company says remains uncertain. What The Rule Actually Changes "The policy update is meant to apply only in extreme cases, where users repeatedly act cruelly toward our models, with no discernible purpose," Anthropic said in its Usage Policy update. Swearing at Claude after it produces a bad answer...
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