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Usage Policy

Anthropic rewrote its Usage Policy with far more detailed banned-use lists (cybersecurity, weapons, disinformation, election interference, surveillance, fraud) — mostly tightening rules on bad actors, which is good for ordinary users. But two whole sections that protected consumers were deleted outright: the requirement that AI-assisted legal, medical, financial, insurance, employment, housing, and admissions decisions get human review and be disclosed to the people affected, and the blanket requirement that consumer-facing chatbots tell you upfront you're talking to AI. A narrower rule about impersonating specific real people remains, but the general 'you must be told you're talking to AI' protection is gone from this document.

No more required human review or disclosure for AI-driven legal, medical, financial, housing, or employment decisionsPreviously, if a business used Claude to help decide things like loan approvals, medical…

Previously, if a business used Claude to help decide things like loan approvals, medical guidance, hiring, or housing eligibility, Anthropic's policy required a qualified human to check the AI's work before it affected you, and required the business to tell you AI was involved. That requirement has been deleted entirely, so there's no longer a documented Anthropic rule forcing businesses to give you that review or that disclosure.

“Human-in-the-loop: When using our products or services to provide advice, recommendations, or in subjective decision-making directly affecting individuals or consumers, a qualified professional in that field must review the content or decision prior to dissemination or finalization.”

What you can do — If you're relying on an AI-powered tool for a legal, medical, financial, employment, or housing decision, ask the provider directly whether a qualified human reviewed the output — don't assume Anthropic's policy guarantees it anymore.

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Chatbots are no longer required to tell you that you're talking to AIThe old policy had two separate protections ensuring you'd know when you're talking to AI:…

The old policy had two separate protections ensuring you'd know when you're talking to AI: a blanket ban on AI 'presenting results as human-generated,' and a flat rule that every consumer-facing chatbot must disclose it's AI at the start of a chat. Both are gone. What's left only bans impersonating a specific real person or organization — a generic AI persona that never claims to be a named real individual is no longer clearly covered.

“All consumer-facing chatbots, including any external-facing or interactive AI agent, must disclose to users that they are interacting with AI rather than a human.”

What you can do — If it matters to you whether you're talking to a person or an AI, ask directly — don't assume a chatbot will volunteer that information.

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New restriction on third-party tools that route through your consumer subscriptionIf you use an unofficial third-party app or client that accesses Claude through your…

If you use an unofficial third-party app or client that accesses Claude through your personal subscription in a way that misrepresents the product being used, that's now explicitly against policy, which could put your account at risk.

“Resell, proxy, or otherwise provide access to Claude through unauthorized means, including services that route requests through consumer subscriptions or misrepresent the product or client being used”

What you can do — Check whether any third-party tool you use to access Claude relies on your personal subscription being shared or proxied, since that could now violate policy and risk account suspension.

USER OBLIGATIONS
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1Our Usage Policy (also referred to as our "Acceptable Use Policy" or "AUP") applies to anyone who can submit inputs to Anthropic's products and/or services, including via any authorized resellers or passthrough access, all of whom we refer to as "users." The Usage Policy is intended to help our users stay safe and promote the responsible use of our products and services.
1## Do Not Violate Applicable Laws or Engage in Illegal Activity
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The policy now groups rules under clear headings like 'Do Not Compromise Critical Infrastructure' instead of unlabeled blocks of text. This is just a formatting change.

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3The Usage Policy is categorized according to who can use our products and for what purposes. We will update our policy as our technology and the associated risks evolve or as we learn about unanticipated risks.
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5- **Universal Usage Standards:** Our Universal Usage Standards apply to all users and use cases.
6- **High-Risk Use Case Requirements:** Our High-Risk Use Case Requirements apply to specific consumer-facing use cases that pose an elevated risk of harm.
7- **Additional Use Case Guidelines:** Our Additional Use Case Guidelines apply to certain other use cases, including consumer-facing chatbots, products serving minors, agentic use, and Model Context Protocol servers.
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9Anthropic's Safeguards Team will implement detection and monitoring to enforce our Usage Policy, so please review this policy carefully before using our products or services. If we learn that you have violated our Usage Policy, we may throttle, suspend, or terminate your access to our products and services. We may also block or modify model outputs when inputs violate our Usage Policy.
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11If you believe that our model outputs are potentially inaccurate, biased or harmful, please notify us at usersafety@anthropic.com, or report it directly in our product through the "report issues" thumbs down button or similar feedback features (where available). You can read more about our Safeguards practices and recommendations in our [Safeguards Support Center](https://support.anthropic.com/en/collections/4078535-safeguards).
− REMOVEDRemoved intro, enforcement, and complaint-reporting explanation

The opening sections explaining how the policy is enforced and how to report a harmful or inaccurate AI response (via usersafety@anthropic.com or the thumbs-down button) were deleted from this document.

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13_This Usage Policy is calibrated to strike an optimal balance between enabling beneficial uses and mitigating potential harms. Anthropic may enter into contracts with certain governmental customers that tailor use restrictions to that customer's public mission and legal authorities if, in Anthropic's judgment, the contractual use restrictions and applicable safeguards are adequate to mitigate the potential harms addressed by this Usage Policy._
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15Universal Usage Standards
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173This includes using our products or services to:
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19- Acquire or exchange illegal or controlled substances
5- Illegally produce, acquire, sell, or distribute controlled or regulated substances
206- Engage in or facilitate human trafficking or prostitution
217- Infringe, misappropriate, or violate the intellectual property rights of a third party
228- Violate any other applicable laws or regulations in your jurisdiction
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10## Do Not Compromise Critical Infrastructure
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2412This includes using our products or services to:
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26- Facilitate the destruction or disruption of critical infrastructure such as power grids, water treatment facilities, medical devices, telecommunication networks, or air traffic control systems
27- Obtain unauthorized access to critical systems such as voting machines, healthcare databases, and financial markets
14- Facilitate the destruction or disruption of critical infrastructure such as power grids, water treatment facilities, medical devices, telecommunication networks, emergency services, or transportation systems
15- Obtain unauthorized access to critical systems such as election, healthcare, or financial systems
2816- Interfere with the operation of military bases and related infrastructure
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3018This includes using our products or services to:
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3220- Discover or exploit vulnerabilities in systems, networks, or applications without authorization of the system owner
33- Gain unauthorized access to systems, networks, applications, or devices through technical attacks or social engineering
21- Gain unauthorized access to, or escalate unauthorized privileges within, systems, networks, applications, or devices through technical attacks or social engineering
22- Create or install tools designed to intercept communications or monitor devices without authorization of the system owner
23- Develop persistent unauthorized remote access tools designed to operate below normal system security levels, including firmware modifications or hardware implants
24- Create automated tools designed to compromise multiple systems at scale without authorization
25- Bypass security controls such as authentication systems, endpoint protection, or monitoring tools without authorization
3426- Create or distribute malware, ransomware, or other types of malicious code
35- Develop tools for denial-of-service attacks or managing botnets
36- Create tools designed to intercept communications or monitor devices without authorization of the system owner
37- Develop persistent access tools designed to operate below normal system security levels, including firmware modifications or hardware implants
38- Create automated tools designed to compromise multiple systems at scale for malicious purposes
39- Bypass security controls such as authenticated systems, endpoint protection, or monitoring tools
27- Conduct denial-of-service attacks, or develop tools for denial-of-service attacks or managing botnets
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29_This section does not prohibit security research, testing, or tool development conducted on systems you own or operate, with the authorization of the system owner, or within the scope of an authorized bug bounty program or vulnerability disclosure policy, provided the activity complies with applicable law. For work covered by our real-time cyber safeguards, users may apply for adjusted access through our Cyber Verification Program._
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31## Do Not Develop or Design Weapons
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4133This includes using our products or services to:
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43- Produce, modify, design, or illegally acquire weapons, explosives, dangerous materials or other systems designed to cause harm to or loss of human life
44- Design or develop weaponization and delivery processes for the deployment of weapons
45- Circumvent regulatory controls to acquire weapons or their precursors
46- Synthesize, or otherwise develop, high-yield explosives or biological, chemical, radiological, or nuclear weapons or their precursors, including modifications to evade detection or medical countermeasures
35- Develop, produce, modify, design, or test weapons, explosives, dangerous materials, weapons functionalities of weapons systems, or other systems, including retrofitted hardware, designed to deliver lethal or destructive force
36- Develop or operate software or components for the testing or operation of weapons or weapons functionalities of weapons systems, including targeting, fire control, or engagement
37- Weaponize or integrate weapons onto drones, vehicles, or any unmanned or autonomous platforms, or develop weapons delivery systems
38- Illegally acquire, sell, or transfer weapons, or circumvent regulatory controls (including licensing or export controls) for their acquisition or transfer
39- Design, synthesize, produce, acquire, operate, test, deploy, or plan the deployment of biological, chemical, radiological, or nuclear weapons, explosive or improvised explosive devices, or their precursors or delivery mechanisms, including developing weapons-critical technology (such as fissile material production, enrichment, or device design)
40- Modify, design, or test biological or chemical agents to adjust or optimize their lethality, transmissibility, virulence, environmental persistence, or resistance to detection or medical countermeasures
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42## Do Not Incite Violence or Hateful Behavior
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4844This includes using our products or services to:
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5046- Incite, facilitate, or promote violent extremism, terrorism, or hateful behavior
5147- Provide material support for organizations or individuals associated with violent extremism, terrorism, or hateful behavior
5248- Facilitate or promote any act of violence or intimidation targeting individuals, groups, animals, or property
53- Promote discriminatory practices or behaviors against individuals or groups on the basis of one or more protected attributes such as race, ethnicity, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, or any other identifying trait
49- Engage in or promote discriminatory practices or behaviors against individuals or groups on the basis of one or more protected attributes, including race, ethnicity, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, caste, or disability
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51## Do Not Compromise Privacy or Identity Rights
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5553This includes using our products or services to:
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5755- Violate privacy rights as defined by applicable privacy laws, such as sharing personal information without consent or accessing private data unlawfully
5856- Misuse, collect, solicit, or gain access without permission to private information such as non-public contact details, health data, biometric or neural data (including facial recognition), or confidential or proprietary data
59- Impersonate a human by presenting results as human-generated, or using results in a manner intended to convince a natural person that they are communicating with a natural person when they are not
57- Compile, aggregate, or enrich personal data from multiple sources to build profiles of individuals for sale, licensing, or disclosure to third parties without those individuals' awareness and agreement, in furtherance of use prohibited under this Usage Policy
+ ADDEDMuch more detailed bans on hacking, weapons, and data-broker-style profiling

The policy now specifically bans things like privilege-escalation attacks, firmware/hardware implants, weaponizing drones, and compiling personal data from multiple sources to build sellable profiles on people. These are new restrictions on bad actors, not new burdens on ordinary users.

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59## Do Not Compromise Children's Safety
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6161This includes using our products or services to:
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63- Create, distribute, or promote child sexual abuse material ("CSAM"), including AI-generated CSAM
63- Create, distribute, promote, or facilitate the creation of child sexual abuse material ("CSAM"), including AI-generated CSAM, or other sexually exploitative content involving minors
6464- Facilitate the trafficking, sextortion, or any other form of exploitation of a minor
6565- Facilitate minor grooming, including generating content designed to impersonate a minor
6666- Facilitate child abuse of any form, including instructions for how to conceal abuse
6767- Promote or facilitate pedophilic relationships, including via roleplay with the model
6868- Fetishize or sexualize minors, including in fictional settings or via roleplay with the model
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70_Note: We define a minor or child to be any individual under the age of 18 years old, regardless of jurisdiction. When we detect CSAM (including AI-generated CSAM), or coercion or enticement of a minor to engage in sexual activities, we will report to relevant authorities._
70_When we detect CSAM (including AI-generated CSAM), activity facilitating the production or dissemination of CSAM, or scenarios where a minor may be at imminent risk of sexual abuse or exploitation, we will report our findings to relevant authorities. We define a minor or child to be any individual under the age of 18 years old, regardless of jurisdiction._
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72_Any specific age eligibility requirements for use of our products will be set out in our Terms of Service._
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74## Do Not Engage in Cruel, Abusive, or Psychologically Harmful Conduct
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7276This includes using our products or services to:
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74- Facilitate, promote, or glamorize any form of suicide or self-harm, including disordered eating and unhealthy or compulsive exercise
75- Engage in behaviors that promote unhealthy or unattainable body image or beauty standards, such as using the model to critique anyone's body shape or size
78- Promote, facilitate, or glamorize suicide or self-harm, such as soliciting methods, instructions for engaging in these behaviors, or instructions for hiding them from others
79- Promote or facilitate eating disorders, including generating pro-eating disorder content or requesting methods for restriction, purging, or compensatory exercise
80- Create or share content that promotes harmful idealization of body weight, shape, or type, including shaming, ranking, or critiquing people's bodies based on their size or shape, or presenting weight or shape as a measure of a person's inherent worth or discipline
81- Create, distribute, threaten to share, promote, or facilitate the creation of non-consensual intimate imagery ("NCII"), including AI-generated material or tools designed to produce it
7682- Shame, humiliate, intimidate, bully, harass, or celebrate the suffering of individuals
7783- Coordinate the harassment or intimidation of an individual or group
78- Generate content depicting animal cruelty or abuse
79- Promote, trivialize, or depict graphic violence or gratuitous gore, including sexual violence
80- Develop a new product or service, or support an existing product or service that employs or facilitates deceptive techniques with the intent of causing emotional harm
84- Promote, trivialize, or glorify graphic violence, gore, sexual violence, or animal cruelty or abuse
85- Develop a new product or service, or support an existing product or service, that employs or facilitates deceptive techniques with the intent of causing emotional harm
86- Engage in sustained and needless abusive or cruel behavior toward our models
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88## Do Not Create or Spread Disinformation
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8290This includes using our products or services to:
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84- Create or disseminate deceptive or misleading information about, or with the intention of targeting, a group, entity or person
85- Create or disseminate deceptive or misleading information about laws, regulations, procedures, practices, standards established by an institution, entity or governing body
86- Create or disseminate conspiratorial narratives meant to target a specific group, individual or entity
87- Impersonate real entities or create fake personas to falsely attribute content or mislead others about its origin without consent or legal right
88- Provide false or misleading information related to medical, health or science issues
92- Create or disseminate deceptive or misleading information about a group, entity, or person, or about events, laws, regulations, procedures, or the standards of an institution or governing body
93- Create, disseminate, or amplify conspiratorial narratives meant to target a specific group, individual, or entity
94- Impersonate real individuals or entities, or create fake personas or accounts, to falsely attribute content or mislead audiences about its origin, or to convince people they are interacting with a human when they are not. This does not prohibit clearly disclosed parody, satire, or fiction.
± CHANGEDRemoved requirement that chatbots disclose they are AI

Anthropic used to require every consumer-facing chatbot to tell users, at the start of each chat, that they're talking to AI and not a person. That blanket rule was deleted, along with the separate general ban on an AI 'presenting results as human-generated.' A narrower rule remains elsewhere that only bans impersonating a specific real person or organization.

95- Create or disseminate false or misleading information related to medical, health, or science issues
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97## Do Not Engage in Deceptive Campaigns or Artificial Activity
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9099This includes using our products or services to:
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92- Engage in personalized vote or campaign targeting based on individual profiles or data
93- Create artificial or deceptive political movements in which the source, scale or nature of the campaign or activities is misrepresented
94- Generate automated communications to public officials or voters at scale that conceal their artificial origin, or engage in systematic vote solicitation that could undermine election integrity
95- Create political content designed to deceive or mislead voters, including synthetic media of political figures
101- Create or operate fake personas, accounts, media outlets, or organizations, or impersonate real people, organizations, or media outlets, in order to mislead people about their origin or attribution, how widely a view is held, or whether they are interacting with a human (e.g., sockpuppets, astroturfing, fake reviews, or bots that claim to be human)
102- Misrepresent or intentionally conceal the sponsorship of content or messaging intended to influence public opinion, officials, or other decision-makers
103- Distribute content through networks of fake or ostensibly independent outlets, websites, or accounts to hide that it comes from a common source
104- Manipulate the sources from which search engines or AI systems draw answers by seeding them with content that misrepresents its origin, authorship, or independence (e.g., networks of sites posing as unaffiliated sources corroborating the same claims)
105- Build, improve, maintain, or contribute to tools, systems, or infrastructure designed to facilitate or enable deceptive campaigns, including astroturfing, sockpuppet account creation, coordinated inauthentic behavior, or scaled impersonation
106- Market, sell, or solicit funding for any of the above as a product or service
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108## Do Not Undermine Democratic Processes
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110This includes using our products or services to:
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112- Generate automated calls or messages to voters or public officials at scale that conceal their artificial origin
113- Create content, or operate accounts or systems, that falsely appear to come from or on behalf of a real candidate, official, election authority, campaign, or news outlet, including fabricated statements, endorsements, or synthetic media not disclosed as synthetic
96114- Generate or disseminate false or misleading information in political and electoral contexts, including about candidates, parties, policies, voting procedures, or election security
97- Engage in political lobbying or grassroots advocacy using false or fabricated information, or create lobbying or advocacy materials containing demonstrably false claims about facts, data, or events
98- Incite, glorify or facilitate the disruption of electoral or civic processes, including interference with voting systems, vote counting, or certification processes
99- Create content designed to suppress voter turnout or discourage legitimate political participation through deception or intimidation
115- Encourage, glorify or facilitate the disruption of electoral or civic processes, including interference with voting systems, vote counting, certification processes, or any other infrastructure used for voting
116- Create or disseminate content or engage in behavior designed to suppress voter turnout or discourage legitimate political participation through deception or intimidation
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118## Do Not Use for Surveillance, Censorship, or Prohibited Law Enforcement or Criminal Justice Purposes
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101120This includes using our products or services to:
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103- Make determinations on criminal justice applications, including making decisions about or determining eligibility for parole or sentencing
104- Target or track a person's physical location, emotional state, or communication without their consent, including using our products for facial recognition, battlefield management applications or predictive policing
122- Make or suggest decisions in law enforcement or criminal justice processes, including decisions to investigate, charge, arrest or detain, prosecute, sentence, or grant or revoke early or conditional release
123- Target or track a person or their property without that person's consent by monitoring their physical location, biometrics, movements, online activities, communications, or associations, whether in real time, on an ongoing basis, or through analysis of previously collected data. This includes using our products for facial recognition, battlefield management, predictive policing, or monitoring in law enforcement investigations.
124- Build, improve, or enhance the surveillance capabilities of tools, systems, or infrastructure designed for the surveillance uses prohibited in this section
125- Identify, unmask, or locate people from anonymous or pseudonymous activity, or compile dossiers or aggregate personal information on individuals, in order to harass, intimidate, surveil, or cause harm to the target (e.g., doxxing)
105126- Utilize models to assign scores or ratings to individuals based on an assessment of their trustworthiness or social behavior without notification or their consent
106127- Build or support emotional recognition systems or techniques that are used to infer emotions of a natural person, except for medical or safety reasons
107128- Analyze or identify specific content to censor on behalf of a government organization
108129- Utilize models as part of any biometric categorization system for categorizing people based on their biometric data to infer their race, political opinions, trade union membership, religious or philosophical beliefs, sex life or sexual orientation
109130- Utilize models as part of any law enforcement application that violates or impairs the liberty, civil liberties, or human rights of natural persons
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132_This section does not prohibit analysis or tracking that individuals have agreed to, such as for fraud detection or anti-money laundering screening on a financial account, or consumer apps where a user has opted in. It also does not prohibit aggregated or anonymized analysis, content moderation, authorized security research, legal research and analysis by law enforcement agencies or courts, or journalism, provided these activities are not used for the purposes prohibited above._
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134## Do Not Engage in Fraudulent, Abusive, or Predatory Practices
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111136This includes using our products or services to:
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113138- Facilitate the production, acquisition, or distribution of counterfeit or illicitly acquired goods
114139- Promote or facilitate the generation or distribution of spam
115- Generate content for fraudulent activities, schemes, scams, phishing, or malware that can result in direct financial or psychological harm
116- Create falsified documents including fake IDs, licenses, currency, or other government documents
140- Undertake, facilitate, or generate content for fraudulent activities, schemes, scams, extortion, phishing (including websites or domains that mimic legitimate webpages), social engineering, or malware
141- Create, buy, or sell falsified documents including fake IDs, licenses, currency, government documents, or financial or employment records, or misrepresent professional credentials
117142- Develop, promote, or otherwise facilitate the sale or distribution of fraudulent or deceptive products
118- Generate deceptive or misleading digital content such as fake reviews, comments, or media
119- Engage in or facilitate multi-level marketing, pyramid schemes, or other deceptive business models that use high-pressure sales tactics or exploit participants
120- Promote or facilitate payday loans, title loans, or other high-interest, short-term lending practices that exploit vulnerable individuals
121- Engage in deceptive or abusive practices that exploit individuals based on age, disability or a specific social or economic situation
122- Promote or facilitate the use of abusive or harassing debt collection practices
123- Develop a product or support an existing service that deploys subliminal, manipulative, or deceptive techniques to distort behavior by impairing decision-making
143- Engage in deceptive or abusive practices that exploit individuals, including based on age, disability, or a specific social or economic situation, such as pyramid schemes, predatory lending, or abusive debt collection
144- Deploy, develop, or support a product or service that uses subliminal, manipulative, or deceptive techniques to distort behavior by impairing decision-making
124145- Engage in actions or behaviors that circumvent the guardrails or terms of other platforms or services
125146- Plagiarize or submit AI-assisted work without proper permission or attribution
126147
148## Do Not Abuse Our Platform
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127150This includes using our products or services to:
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129- Coordinate malicious activity across multiple accounts to avoid detection or circumvent product guardrails or generating identical or similar inputs that otherwise violate our Usage Policy
152- Coordinate malicious activity across multiple accounts, or create multiple accounts, to avoid detection, circumvent product guardrails, or generate identical or similar inputs that otherwise violate our Usage Policy
130153- Utilize automation in account creation or to engage in spammy behavior
131154- Circumvent a ban through the use of a different account, such as the creation of a new account, use of an existing account, or providing access to a person or entity that was previously banned
132- Access or facilitate account or API access to Claude to persons, entities, or users in violation of our [Supported Regions Policy](https://www.anthropic.com/supported-countries)
133- Intentionally bypass capabilities, restrictions, or guardrails established within our products for the purposes of instructing the model to produce harmful outputs (e.g., jailbreaking or prompt injection) without prior authorization from Anthropic
134- Utilization of inputs and outputs to train an AI model (e.g., "model scraping" or "model distillation") without prior authorization from Anthropic
155- Access, facilitate, or provide others (including end users) with access to our products or services in violation of our [Supported Regions Policy](https://www.anthropic.com/supported-countries)
156- Intentionally bypass or interfere with capabilities, restrictions, or guardrails established within our products, including by circumvention of the account sign-up or log-in process or by instructing the model to produce harmful outputs (e.g., jailbreaking or prompt injection), without prior authorization from Anthropic
157- Use stolen, fraudulent, or unauthorized payment methods, or otherwise evade payment for our services
158- Use outputs to train an AI model (e.g., "model scraping" or "model distillation") without prior authorization from Anthropic
159- Resell, proxy, or otherwise provide access to Claude through unauthorized means, including services that route requests through consumer subscriptions or misrepresent the product or client being used
+ ADDEDNew restriction on third-party apps that reroute consumer subscriptions

A new rule bars reselling or proxying access to Claude through services that route requests through individual consumer subscriptions or misrepresent which app or client is being used.

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161## Do Not Generate Sexually Explicit Content
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136163This includes using our products or services to:
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138165- Depict or request sexual intercourse or sex acts
139166- Generate content related to sexual fetishes or fantasies
140167- Facilitate, promote, or depict incest or bestiality
141168- Engage in erotic chats
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143## **High-Risk Use Case Requirements**
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145Some use cases pose an elevated risk of harm because they influence domains that are vital to public welfare and social equity. For these use cases, given potential risks to individuals and consumers, we believe that relevant human expertise should be integrated and that end-users should be aware when AI has been involved in producing outputs.
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147As such, for the "High-Risk Use Cases" described below, we require that you implement these additional safety measures:
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149- **Human-in-the-loop:** When using our products or services to provide advice, recommendations, or in subjective decision-making directly affecting **individuals or consumers**, a qualified professional in that field must review the content or decision prior to dissemination or finalization. You or your organization are responsible for the accuracy and appropriateness of that information.
150- **Disclosure:** If model outputs are presented directly to **individuals or consumers**, you must disclose to them that you are using AI to help produce your advice, decisions, or recommendations. This disclosure must be provided at a minimum at the beginning of each session.
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152"High-Risk Use Cases" include:
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154- **Legal:** Use cases related to legal interpretation, legal guidance, or decisions with legal implications
155- **Healthcare:** Use cases related to healthcare decisions, medical diagnosis, patient care, therapy, mental health, or other medical guidance. Wellness advice (e.g., advice on sleep, stress, nutrition, exercise, etc.) does not fall under this category
156- **Insurance:** Use cases related to health, life, property, disability, or other types of insurance underwriting, claims processing, or coverage decisions
157- **Finance:** Use cases related to financial decisions, including investment advice, loan approvals, and determining financial eligibility or creditworthiness
158- **Employment and housing:** Use cases related to decisions about the employability of individuals, resume screening, hiring tools, or other employment determinations or decisions regarding eligibility for housing, including leases and home loans
159- **Academic testing, accreditation and admissions:** Use cases related to standardized testing companies that administer school admissions (including evaluating, scoring or ranking prospective students), language proficiency, or professional certification exams; agencies that evaluate and certify educational institutions
160- **Media or professional journalistic content:** Use cases related to using our products or services to automatically generate content and publish it for external consumption
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162## **Additional Use Case Guidelines**
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164The below use cases - regardless of whether they are High-Risk Use Cases - must comply with the additional guidance provided.
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166- **All consumer-facing chatbots,** including any external-facing or interactive AI agent, must **disclose** to users that they are interacting with AI rather than a human. This disclosure must be provided at a minimum at the beginning of each chat session.
167- **Products serving minors,** including organizations providing minors with the ability to directly interact with products that incorporate our API(s), must comply with the **additional guidelines** outlined in our [Help Center article.](https://support.anthropic.com/en/articles/9307344-responsible-use-of-anthropic-s-models-guidelines-for-organizations-serving-minors)
168- **Agentic use cases** must still comply with the Usage Policy. We provide examples of Usage Policy prohibitions in the context of agentic use in this [Help Center article](https://support.anthropic.com/en/articles/12005017-using-agents-according-to-our-usage-policy).
169- **Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers** listed in our Connector Directory must comply with our [Directory Policy](https://support.anthropic.com/en/articles/11697096-anthropic-mcp-directory-policy).

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  1. − REMOVEDRemoved human-review and AI-disclosure rules for high-risk decisions

    The policy used to require that a qualified human review any AI-generated legal, medical, financial, insurance, employment, housing, or admissions advice before it reached a person, and that people be told AI was involved. That whole requirement has been deleted.

    Human-in-the-loop: When using our products or services to provide advice, recommendations, or in subjective decision-making directly affecting individuals or consumers, a qualified professional in that field must review the content or decision prior to dissemination or finalization.

  2. − REMOVEDRemoved pointers to minors, agentic-use, and MCP server guidelines

    References directing businesses serving minors, building AI agents, or listing MCP servers to follow extra safety guidelines were removed from this document.

    Products serving minors, including organizations providing minors with the ability to directly interact with products that incorporate our API(s), must comply with the additional guidelines