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This provision establishes an operational boundary for permissible API applications by excluding use cases intended to manipulate or emotionally damage individuals. The restriction affects the scope of authorized uses and may inform Anthropic's content policy enforcement and account management decisions.
Defense contractors and federal agencies using Claude must find alternatives. Enterprise customers with defense-adjacent business face compliance risk.
View change record →Users are contractually required to refrain from generating psychologically or emotionally harmful content via the API. Violation of this restriction would constitute a breach of the usage policy terms and could result in service discontinuation or other enforcement actions as specified in the agreement.
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This provision establishes an operational boundary for permissible API applications by excluding use cases intended to manipulate or emotionally damage individuals. The restriction affects the scope of authorized uses and may inform Anthropic's content policy enforcement and account management decisions.
Users are contractually required to refrain from generating psychologically or emotionally harmful content via the API. Violation of this restriction would constitute a breach of the usage policy terms and could result in service discontinuation or other enforcement actions as specified in the agreement.
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