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Anthropic Updates Claude Usage Policy to Bar Model Abuse, Election Interference and Surveillance

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Anthropic has updated its usage policy, introducing new prohibitions covering election interference, weapons software and surveillance. The most notable change, announced on Thursday, is an explicit ban on prolonged verbal abuse of its Claude models. Since an update in August, Claude has been train…

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  1. 2026-10-09 17:03 · AI Insider
    Anthropic Updates Claude Usage Policy to Bar Model Abuse, Election Interference and Surveillance

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