🤖 Anthropic Adds a Cruelty Rule for Claude

From November 12, 2026, Anthropic’s policy will ban “systematic and unjustified abusive or cruel behavior” toward its models. It applies only in extreme cases involving repeated cruelty without an apparent purpose.

Ordinary frustration and resistance are excluded. So are dark creative texts and model testing. Claude can already end chats with repeatedly abusive users on and Claude Code. Anthropic says this will remain the main enforcement tool.

The update also extends the weapons ban to software used by weapons and drone armament. It clarifies that tracking people without consent is prohibited and adds safety requirements when Claude controls equipment that could harm people.

📊@tech