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The prohibition includes a prior authorization carve-out, meaning the restriction applies absent Anthropic's authorization, and bypass for harmful output is not categorically prohibited where such authorization exists.
Defense contractors and federal agencies using Claude must find alternatives. Enterprise customers with defense-adjacent business face compliance risk.
View change record →Intentionally bypassing Anthropic's product guardrails to produce harmful outputs is prohibited unless Anthropic has given prior authorization.
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"Intentionally bypass capabilities, restrictions, or guardrails established within our products for the purposes of instructing the model to produce harmful outputs (e.g., jailbreaking or prompt injection) without prior authorization from Anthropic— Excerpt from Anthropic's Anthropic API Usage Policy
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The prohibition includes a prior authorization carve-out, meaning the restriction applies absent Anthropic's authorization, and bypass for harmful output is not categorically prohibited where such authorization exists.
Intentionally bypassing Anthropic's product guardrails to produce harmful outputs is prohibited unless Anthropic has given prior authorization.
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