Anthropic has included a clause in its terms of service prohibiting users from employing its Claude AI to create content that could "reputationally harm" the company. The clause, labeled as unusual by observers, allows Anthropic to take legal action against users who use Claude to write critical posts about the company's practices. The policy effectively warns users against using the AI tool to generate negative publicity or criticism of Anthropic itself.
By the way, public service announcement: if you're one of the numerous people posting about Anthropic's dystopian ways and you're thinking about getting Claude to help you write that post... don't! Another one of their terms is that you may not use Claude to do anything that reputational harms" 👇 And, if you do, under the - extremely unusual - clause 13 of their terms (
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