From AV Club · · 40s
Anthropic bans abusive chatbot behavior
Anthropic updates policies to outlaw 'abusing' its AI models.
In brief
Anthropic updates policies to outlaw 'abusing' its AI models. Anthropic updated policies to forbid 'sustained and needless abusive or cruel behavior' toward its AI models, allowing them to terminate conversations with persistently abusive users. Originally reported by AV Club.
Anthropic updates policies
Anthropic updated policies to explicitly forbid 'sustained and needless abusive or cruel behavior' toward its AI models.
“sustained and needless abusive or cruel behavior”
Claude terminates abusive users
Claude is allowed to terminate conversations with persistently abusive users.
“persistently abusive users”
Policy excludes normal frustration
The policy does not apply to common user frustration, pushback, or dark creative themes.
“common versions of user frustration, pushback, dark creative themes”
The headline
Anthropic updated policies to forbid 'sustained and needless abusive or cruel behavior' toward its AI models, allowing them to terminate conversations with persistently abusive users.





