From The Verge · Jay Peters · · 1m 10s
Anthropic blocks Claude from cloning video games
Anthropic updated Claude Code to stop recreating existing games, but users can still build original titles.
In brief
Anthropic updated Claude Code to stop recreating existing games, but users can still build original titles. Anthropic updated Claude Code's system prompt to prevent recreating specific video games, citing IP infringement concerns, while allowing original game creation. Originally reported by The Verge.
Anthropic updates Claude to block game clones
Anthropic has updated Claude Code's system prompt to prevent the AI tool from recreating existing video games, as reported by Tom's Hardware.
The new rules for Claude Code
A user on X posted screenshots showing two sentences added to the prompt: Do build original games, games in a genre, and games from the user's own designs and assets.
“Do build original games, games in a genre, and games from the user's own designs and assets. Don't build a recreation of a specific existing game, even if it is named or called original.”
Anthropic's Addy Osmani explains the change
Anthropic's Addy Osmani confirmed the update to Claude Code on Opus five point five, saying the company added sentences to steer it away from recreating someone else's specific game because using Claude to infringe IP…
“using Claude to infringe IP is against our usage policy.”
Original games still allowed
Osmani said original games, genre games, and games built from users' own designs and assets are meant to keep working, and Anthropic will continue to iterate to strike the right balance.
“Original games, genre games, and games built from your own designs and assets are meant to keep working.”
The one thing
Anthropic updated Claude Code's system prompt to prevent recreating specific video games, citing IP infringement concerns, while allowing original game creation.
