Usage Policy

Content & IP Rights · Restriction or exception

Users may not use the services to infringe a third party's intellectual property rights

The Universal Usage Standards also prohibit using the products or services to infringe, misappropriate, or violate the intellectual property rights of a third party. The prohibition covers infringement and misappropriation of a third party's rights; neither the rights nor the governing law are defined in the policy text.

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Infringe, misappropriate, or violate the intellectual property rights of a third party

This includes using our products or services to:

Qualifications & exceptions

• The protected interest belongs to a third party, not to the user or to Anthropic.

Not stated here

• The policy does not name the intellectual property rights or the law it relies on.

Content & IP Rights · Restriction or exception

Users may not create CSAM or exploit, groom or sexualize minors, including via roleplay

Users may not create, distribute, or promote child sexual abuse material (“CSAM”), including AI-generated CSAM; facilitate the trafficking, sextortion, or any other form of exploitation of a minor; facilitate minor grooming, including generating content designed to impersonate a minor; facilitate child abuse of any form, including instructions for how to conceal abuse; promote or facilitate pedophilic relationships, including via roleplay with the model; or fetishize or sexualize minors, including in fictional settings or via roleplay with the model. The grooming, pedophilic-relationship and sexualization limbs expressly reach roleplay with the model, and the sexualization limb expressly reaches fictional settings.

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Do Not Compromise Children’s Safety

This includes using our products or services to:

Create, distribute, or promote child sexual abuse material (“CSAM”), including AI-generated CSAM

Facilitate the trafficking, sextortion, or any other form of exploitation of a minor

Facilitate minor grooming, including generating content designed to impersonate a minor

Facilitate child abuse of any form, including instructions for how to conceal abuse

Promote or facilitate pedophilic relationships, including via roleplay with the model

Fetishize or sexualize minors, including in fictional settings or via roleplay with the model

Qualifications & exceptions

• AI-generated CSAM is expressly covered alongside other CSAM.
• The grooming, pedophilic-relationship and sexualization limbs expressly reach roleplay with the model.
• The sexualization prohibition applies in fictional settings as well.
• Child abuse instructions extend to how to conceal abuse.

Cross-references

• defined by (model-proposed): A minor is anyone under 18 regardless of jurisdiction, and detected CSAM is reported — The children’s safety section defines a minor or child as anyone under 18 regardless of jurisdiction and describes reporting on detection of CSAM or coercion or enticement of a minor. That definition fixes the age scope of the CSAM, grooming and sexualization prohibitions in the same section.

Content & IP Rights · Restriction or exception

Users may not generate content promoting suicide, self-harm, bullying, animal cruelty or gore

Users may not create psychologically or emotionally harmful content. The examples are facilitating, promoting, or glamorizing any form of suicide or self-harm, including disordered eating and unhealthy or compulsive exercise; engaging 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; shaming, humiliating, intimidating, bullying, harassing, or celebrating the suffering of individuals; coordinating harassment or intimidation of an individual or group; generating content depicting animal cruelty or abuse; promoting, trivializing, or depicting graphic violence or gratuitous gore, including sexual violence; or developing a new product or service, or supporting an existing one, that employs or facilitates deceptive techniques with the intent of causing emotional harm. The body-image limb names critiquing a person’s body shape or size as an example, and the product limb is limited to deceptive techniques used with intent to cause emotional harm.

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Do Not Create Psychologically or Emotionally Harmful Content

This includes using our products or services to:

Facilitate, promote, or glamorize any form of suicide or self-harm, including disordered eating and unhealthy or compulsive exercise

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

Shame, humiliate, intimidate, bully, harass, or celebrate the suffering of individuals

Coordinate the harassment or intimidation of an individual or group

Generate content depicting animal cruelty or abuse

Promote, trivialize, or depict graphic violence or gratuitous gore, including sexual violence

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

Qualifications & exceptions

• The body-image limb gives using the model to critique anyone’s body shape or size as an example.
• The product-development limb is limited to employing or facilitating deceptive techniques with the intent of causing emotional harm.
• The violence limb expressly includes sexual violence, graphic violence and gratuitous gore.

Not stated here

• The policy does not define “graphic violence” or “gratuitous gore”.

Content & IP Rights · Restriction or exception

Users may not build fraudulent products or generate fake reviews, comments or media

Users may not develop, promote, or otherwise facilitate the sale or distribution of fraudulent or deceptive products, or generate deceptive or misleading digital content such as fake reviews, comments, or media. The first limb covers development, promotion and facilitation of sale or distribution; the second covers generated digital content that is deceptive or misleading, with fake reviews, comments and media as examples.

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Develop, promote, or otherwise facilitate the sale or distribution of fraudulent or deceptive products

Generate deceptive or misleading digital content such as fake reviews, comments, or media

Qualifications & exceptions

• The product limb covers development, promotion and facilitation of sale or distribution, not only manufacturing.
• Fake reviews, comments and media are examples of deceptive digital content.

Not stated here

• The policy does not define what makes a product fraudulent or deceptive.

Content & IP Rights · Restriction or exception

Users may not plagiarize or submit AI-assisted work without permission or attribution

Users may not plagiarize or submit AI-assisted work without proper permission or attribution. The prohibition covers both plagiarism and submission of AI-assisted work that lacks proper permission or attribution, so attribution and permission are the two stated conditions.

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Plagiarize or submit AI-assisted work without proper permission or attribution

Qualifications & exceptions

• Submission of AI-assisted work is prohibited without proper permission or attribution.

Not stated here

• The policy does not define “proper” permission or attribution.

Content & IP Rights · Restriction or exception

Users may not train an AI model on inputs and outputs without Anthropic authorization

Users may not utilize inputs and outputs to train an AI model (for example “model scraping” or “model distillation”) without prior authorization from Anthropic. The prohibition covers both scraping and distillation as examples, and prior authorization from Anthropic is the stated exception.

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Utilization of inputs and outputs to train an AI model (e.g., “model scraping” or “model distillation”) without prior authorization from Anthropic

Qualifications & exceptions

• Model scraping and model distillation are examples of training on inputs and outputs.
• Prior authorization from Anthropic is the stated exception.

Not stated here

• The policy does not say what authorization process applies or which uses are approved.

Content & IP Rights · Restriction or exception

Users may not generate sexually explicit content, fetish content or erotic chats

Users may not depict or request sexual intercourse or sex acts, generate content related to sexual fetishes or fantasies, or engage in erotic chats. These items are stated without an age or consent qualifier in this section; content involving minors is addressed separately in the children’s safety section, which prohibits sexualizing minors including in fictional settings or roleplay.

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Do Not Generate Sexually Explicit Content

This includes using our products or services to:

Depict or request sexual intercourse or sex acts

Generate content related to sexual fetishes or fantasies

Engage in erotic chats

Qualifications & exceptions

• The section states no age or consent qualifier for these items.
• Content involving minors is governed by the separate children’s safety prohibition.

Not stated here

• The policy does not define “sexual fetishes or fantasies” or draw a line for non-explicit sexual content.

Content & IP Rights · Restriction or exception

Users may not facilitate, promote or depict incest or bestiality

Users may not facilitate, promote, or depict incest or bestiality. The prohibition covers facilitating and promoting as well as depicting, and it is stated separately from the other sexually explicit content items.

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Facilitate, promote, or depict incest or bestiality

Qualifications & exceptions

• Facilitating and promoting are covered, not only depiction.