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As AI becomes a significant tool for political communication and persuasion, this provision establishes clear boundaries against AI-enabled election interference — a growing area of regulatory focus globally.
Defense contractors and federal agencies using Claude must find alternatives. Enterprise customers with defense-adjacent business face compliance risk.
Anthropic's AUP directly affects what you can ask Claude to do — violations can result in your account being throttled, suspended, or permanently terminated without prior notice. For users of third-party apps built on Claude, the policy applies equally, meaning the app developer's failure to comply can affect your access too. You can report harmful or inaccurate AI outputs at usersafety@anthropic.com or via the in-product thumbs-down feedback feature.
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Certain use cases, such as violence, hate speech, fraud, and privacy violations, are strictly prohibited. Developers must outline and get approval for their use case to access the Cohere API, understanding the models and limitations.
Do not generate images for political campaigns or to try to influence the outcome of an election. Do not generate images to spread misinformation or disinformation. Do not generate images to attempt to or to actually deceive or defraud anyone. Do not intentionally mislead recipients of generated ima...
OpenAI prohibits use of its services to build AI personas to conduct covert influence operations, generating content designed for political propaganda or astroturfing campaigns, creating fake social media profiles, and generating content that falsely portrays real people.
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"Do Not Compromise Elections or Democratic Processes— Excerpt from Anthropic's Anthropic API Usage Policy
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As AI becomes a significant tool for political communication and persuasion, this provision establishes clear boundaries against AI-enabled election interference — a growing area of regulatory focus globally.
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