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This restriction limits how users—particularly developers and businesses—can use the Services, barring any competitive application or resale of Anthropic's technology.
Interpretive note: The excerpt appears to be a list item fragment rather than a complete standalone sentence, suggesting it is drawn from a broader list of prohibited uses. The framing 'To develop...' implies it is prohibited conduct, which is the most natural reading in context, but the prohibitory framing is inferred from the document structure rather than explicit in the isolated excerpt.
Users are prohibited from using the Services in ways that would compete with Anthropic, including building rival AI products, training competing models, or reselling access.
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use the Application Services in a manner that overburdens, or that threatens the integrity, performance, or availability of, the Application Services
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"To develop any products or services that compete with our Services, including to develop or train any artificial intelligence or machine learning algorithms or models or resell the Services.— Excerpt from Anthropic's Claude.ai Terms of Service
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This restriction limits how users—particularly developers and businesses—can use the Services, barring any competitive application or resale of Anthropic's technology.
Users are prohibited from using the Services in ways that would compete with Anthropic, including building rival AI products, training competing models, or reselling access.
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