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Prohibition on impersonating human to natural persons

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Why it matters (compliance & governance perspective)

This prohibition targets deceptive intent specifically toward natural persons, covering both presentation of outputs as human-generated and any use designed to produce that false belief.

Recent Activity

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High Feb 27, 2026

Defense contractors and federal agencies using Claude must find alternatives. Enterprise customers with defense-adjacent business face compliance risk.

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Clause Stability Stable

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Changes
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Months Monitored
Jul 10, 2026
First Seen
Jul 10, 2026
Last Seen
This clause type exists across 4369 other provisions on other platforms.

Consumer impact (what this means for users)

Anthropic's products and services may not be used to make a natural person believe they are communicating with a human when they are not.

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▸ View Original Clause Language DOCUMENT RECORD
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Impersonate a human by presenting results as human-generated, or using results in a manner intended to convince a natural person that they are communicating with a natural person when they are not

— Excerpt from Anthropic's Anthropic API Usage Policy

Applicable regulations

CFAA
United States Federal
DMCA
United States Federal
DSA
European Union
Trump Executive Order on AI Policy Framework
US

Provision details

Document information
Document
Anthropic API Usage Policy
Entity
Anthropic
Document last updated
May 11, 2026
Tracking information
First tracked
May 11, 2026
Last verified
May 11, 2026
Record ID
CA-P-017279
Document ID
CA-D-00013
Evidence Provenance
Source URL
Wayback Machine
Content hash (SHA-256)
60e693438d9f7f47deb8f3bfb819343e26b5fe0eb90d56280568f1dd95ae660f
Analysis generated
May 11, 2026 00:39 UTC
Methodology
Evidence
✓ Snapshot stored   ✓ Hash verified
Citation Record
Entity: Anthropic
Document: Anthropic API Usage Policy
Record ID: CA-P-017279
Captured: 2026-05-11 00:39:26 UTC
SHA-256: 60e693438d9f7f47…
URL: https://conductatlas.com/platform/anthropic/anthropic-api-usage-policy/provision/CA-P-017279/prohibition-on-impersonating-human-to-natural-persons/
Accessed: July 12, 2026
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Classification
Severity
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Frequently Asked Questions

What does Anthropic's Prohibition on impersonating human to natural persons clause do?

This prohibition targets deceptive intent specifically toward natural persons, covering both presentation of outputs as human-generated and any use designed to produce that false belief.

How does this clause affect you?

Anthropic's products and services may not be used to make a natural person believe they are communicating with a human when they are not.

How many platforms have this type of clause?

ConductAtlas has identified this type of provision across 285 platforms. See the full comparison.

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