Anthropic Wants You to Stop Bullying Claude: Being 'Cruel or Abusive' Could Have Consequences

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...