India, Oct. 9 -- Anthropic has updated its usage policy to prohibit users from engaging in "sustained and needless abusive or cruel behavior" towards its Claude AI models. The new rules take effect on November 12, 2026.

The San Francisco-based AI company said the extreme cases where users repeatedly behave cruelly towards its models without a discernible purpose. It stressed that ordinary frustration, criticism, model testing and dark creative themes remain permitted.

Anthropic, earlier this year, had also allowed Claude to end conversations involving persistent abuse. Under the revised policy, ending such conversations will remain the primary enforcement mechanism.

Anthropic said the new restriction applies when users repeatedly subje...