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Anthropic asks users to stop being mean to Claude

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Anthropic has launched a cybersecurity initiative to help critical infrastructure operators and open source projects find and fix software vulnerabilities using its AI models.

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ai and ml New usage policy cracks down on cruelty to chatbot, alongside slightly more pressing matters of weapons development, surveillance, and election interference Anthropic has updated its rules to stop people being mean to Claude, apparently deciding that its AI chatbot needs protection from the humans paying to use it. The AI developer's latest usage policy prohibits "sustained and needless abusive or cruel behavior" toward its models. The rules take effect November 12, giving users just over a month to get any lingering insults out of their systems. "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. "It does not apply to common versions of user frustration, pushback, dark creative themes, or model testing and research." So you can still tell Claude it is wrong, but repeatedly berating it for the sheer pleasure of doing so could land you in trouble. It's not clear how Anthropic intends to distinguish between legitimate frustration and gratuitous cruelty, though it says Claude's existing ability to end abusive conversations will remain its primary enforcement tool. Anthropic gave Claude the ability to end certain conversations back in August 2025 as part of its research into what it calls "model welfare." The feature lets some versions of Claude cut off users who...

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The company has also launched a new cybersecurity initiative aimed at helping critical infrastructure operators and open source projects find and fix vulnerabilities using its AI models.

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