Anthropic updates usage policy to prohibit continued unwarranted abuse and cruelty to Claude

Anthropic recently updated its model usage policy, making important adjustments to the rules for the first time in more than a year. The new policy explicitly prohibits "sustained and unwarranted abuse or cruelty" against the Claude model, emphasizing that this provision only applies to extreme situations and does not cover ordinary user frustration, creative dark themes, or compliant model testing and research. This update also consolidates and strengthens a number of high-risk usage restrictions: a new prohibition on using Claude to launch deceptive commercial or political propaganda