11 October 2026
Anthropic bans sustained cruel treatment of its Claude AI models
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- Anthropic, the company behind the Claude chatbot, added a rule barring "sustained and needless abusive or cruel" behaviour toward its AI models.
- The policy applies only to extreme, repeated cases with no clear purpose, and excludes ordinary frustration, pushback, dark creative themes, and testing.