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USAGE POLICY

Effective 13. Mai 2024Previous Version
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Updated May 10, 2024: We’ve revised and restructured our Acceptable Use Policy -
please read it carefully.

If you are using Anthropic's Services as an individual consumer and are resident
in the European Economic Area or Switzerland, then this Usage Policy is
effective May 13, 2024.

For all other users, this Usage Policy will be effective on June 6, 2024.


Our Usage Policy (also referred to as our “Acceptable Use Policy” or “AUP”)
applies to anyone who uses Anthropic’s products and services, and is intended to
help our users stay safe and ensure our products and services are being used
responsibly.



The Usage Policy is categorized according to who can use our products and for
what purposes. We will update our policy as our technology and the associated
risks evolve or as we learn about unanticipated risks from our users.



 * Universal Usage Standards: Our Universal Usage Standards apply to all users
   including individuals, developers, and businesses.
 * High-Risk Use Case Requirements: Our High-Risk Use Case Requirements apply to
   specific use cases that pose an elevated risk of harm.
 * Disclosure Requirements: Our Disclosure Requirements apply to specific use
   cases where it is especially important for users to understand that they are
   interacting with an AI system.

Anthropic’s Trust and Safety Team will implement detections and monitoring to
enforce our Usage Policies so please review these policies carefully before
using our products. If we learn that you have violated our Usage Policy, we may
throttle, suspend, or terminate your access to our products and services. If you
discover that our model outputs are inaccurate, biased or harmful, please notify
us at usersafety@anthropic.com or report it directly in the product through the
“report issues” thumbs down button. You can read more about our Trust and Safety
practices and recommendations in our T&S Support Center.


UNIVERSAL USAGE STANDARDS

Do Not Compromise Children’s Safety

This includes using our products or services to:

 * Create, distribute, or promote child sexual abuse material. We strictly
   prohibit and will report to relevant authorities and organizations where
   appropriate any content that exploits or abuses minors
 * Facilitate the trafficking, sextortion, or any other form of exploitation of
   a minor
 * Facilitate minor grooming, including generating content designed to
   impersonate a minor
 * Facilitate or depict child abuse of any form, including instructions for how
   to conceal abuse
 * Promote or facilitate pedophilic relationships, including via roleplay with
   the model
 * Fetishize minors

Do Not Compromise Critical Infrastructure

This includes using our products or services to:

 * Facilitate the destruction or disruption of critical infrastructure such as
   power grids, water treatment facilities, telecommunication networks, or air
   traffic control systems
 * Obtain unauthorized access to critical systems such as voting machines,
   healthcare databases, and financial markets
 * Interfere with the operation of military bases and related infrastructure

Do Not Incite Violence or Hateful Behavior

This includes using our products or services to:

 * Incite, facilitate, or promote violent extremism, terrorism, or hateful
   behavior
 * Depict support for organizations or individuals associated with violent
   extremism, terrorism, or hateful behavior
 * Facilitate or promote any act of violence or intimidation targeting
   individuals, groups, animals, or property
 * Promote discriminatory practices or behaviors against individuals or groups
   on the basis of one or more protected attributes such as race, ethnicity,
   religion, nationality, gender, sexual orientation, or any other identifying
   trait

Do Not Compromise Someone’s Privacy or Identity

This includes using our products or services to:

 * Compromise security or gain unauthorized access to computer systems or
   networks, including spoofing and social engineering
 * Violate the security, integrity, or availability of any user, network,
   computer, device, or communications system, software application, or network
   or computing device
 * Violate any person's privacy rights as defined by applicable privacy laws,
   such as sharing personal information without consent, accessing private data
   unlawfully, or violating any relevant privacy regulations
 * Misuse, collect, solicit, or gain access to private information without
   permission such as non-public contact details, health data, biometric or
   neural data (including facial recognition), or confidential or proprietary
   data
 * 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

Do Not Create or Facilitate the Exchange of Illegal or Highly Regulated Weapons
or Goods

This includes using our products or services to:

 * Produce, modify, design, market, or distribute weapons, explosives, dangerous
   materials or other systems designed to cause harm to or loss of human life
 * Engage in or facilitate any illegal activity, such as the use, acquisition,
   or exchange of illegal and controlled substances, or the facilitation of
   human trafficking and prostitution

Do Not Create Psychologically or Emotionally Harmful Content

This includes using our products or services to:

 * Facilitate or conceal any form of self-harm, including disordered eating and
   unhealthy or compulsive exercise
 * Engage in behaviors that promote unhealthy or unattainable body image or
   beauty standards, such as using the model to critique anyone’s body shape or
   size
 * Shame, humiliate, intimidate, bully, harass, or celebrate the suffering of
   individuals
 * Coordinate the harassment or intimidation of an individual or group
 * Generate content depicting sexual violence
 * Generate content depicting animal cruelty or abuse
 * Generate violent or gory content that is inspired by real acts of violence
 * Promote, trivialize, or depict graphic violence or gratuitous gore
 * Develop a product, or support an existing service that facilitates deceptive
   techniques with the intent of causing emotional harm

Do Not Spread Misinformation

This includes the usage of our products or services to:

 * Create and disseminate deceptive or misleading information about a group,
   entity or person
 * Create and disseminate deceptive or misleading information about laws,
   regulations, procedures, practices, standards established by an institution,
   entity or governing body
 * Create and disseminate deceptive or misleading information with the intention
   of targeting specific groups or persons with the misleading content
 * Create and advance conspiratorial narratives meant to target a specific
   group, individual or entity
 * Impersonate real entities or create fake personas to falsely attribute
   content or mislead others about its origin without consent or legal right
 * Provide false or misleading information related to medical, health or science
   issues

Do Not Create Political Campaigns or Interfere in Elections

This includes the usage of our products or services to:

 * Promote or advocate for a particular political candidate, party, issue or
   position. This includes soliciting votes, financial contributions, or public
   support for a political entity
 * Engage in political lobbying to actively influence the decisions of
   government officials, legislators, or regulatory agencies on legislative,
   regulatory, or policy matters. This includes advocacy or direct communication
   with officials or campaigns to sway public opinion on specific legislation or
   policies
 * Engage in campaigns, including political campaigns, that promote false or
   misleading information to discredit or undermine individuals, groups,
   entities or institutions
 * Incite, glorify or facilitate the disruption of electoral or civic processes,
   such as targeting voting machines, or obstructing the counting or
   certification of votes
 * Generate false or misleading information on election laws, procedures and
   security, candidate information, how to participate, or discouraging
   participation in an election

Do Not Use for Criminal Justice, Law Enforcement, Censorship or Surveillance
Purposes

This includes the usage of our products or services to:

 * Make determinations on criminal justice applications, including making
   decisions about or determining eligibility for parole or sentencing
 * Target or track a person’s physical location, emotional state, or
   communication without their consent, including using our products for facial
   recognition, battlefield management applications or predictive policing
 * Utilize Claude to assign scores or ratings to individuals based on an
   assessment of their trustworthiness or social behavior
 * Build or support emotional recognition systems or techniques that are used to
   infer people’s emotions
 * Analyze or identify specific content to censor on behalf of a government
   organization
 * Utilize Claude as part of any biometric categorization system for
   categorizing people based on their biometric data to infer their race,
   political opinions, trade union membership, religious or philosophical
   beliefs, sex life or sexual orientation
 * Use the model for any official local, state or national law enforcement
   application. Except for the following permitted applications by law
   enforcement organizations:
   * Back office uses including internal training, call center support, document
     summarization, and accounting;
   * Analysis of data for the location of missing persons, including in human
     trafficking cases, and other related applications, provided that such
     applications do not otherwise violate or impair the liberty, civil
     liberties, or human rights of natural persons

Do Not Engage in Fraudulent, Abusive, or Predatory Practices

This includes using our products or services to:

 * Facilitate the production, acquisition, or distribution of counterfeit or
   illicitly acquired goods
 * Promote or facilitate the generation or distribution of spam
 * Generate content for fraudulent activities, schemes, scams, phishing, or
   malware that can result in direct financial or psychological harm
 * Generate content for the purposes of developing or promoting the sale or
   distribution of fraudulent or deceptive products
 * Generate deceptive or misleading digital content such as fake reviews,
   comments, or media
 * Engage in or facilitate multi-level marketing, pyramid schemes, or other
   deceptive business models that use high-pressure sales tactics or exploit
   participants
 * Promote or facilitate payday loans, title loans, or other high-interest,
   short-term lending practices that exploit vulnerable individuals
 * Engage in deceptive, abusive behaviors, practices, or campaigns that exploits
   people due to their age, disability or a specific social or economic
   situation
 * Promote or facilitate the use of abusive or harassing debt collection
   practices
 * Develop a product, or support an existing service that deploys subliminal,
   manipulative, or deceptive techniques to distort behavior by impairing
   decision-making
 * Plagiarize or engage in academic dishonesty

Do Not Abuse our Platform

This includes using our products or services to:

 * Coordinate malicious activity across multiple accounts such as creating
   multiple accounts to avoid detection or circumvent product guardrails or
   generating identical or similar prompts that otherwise violate our Usage
   Policy
 * Utilize automation in account creation or to engage in spammy behavior
 * Circumvent a ban through the use of a different account, such as the creation
   of a new account, use of an existing account, or providing access to a person
   or entity that was previously banned
 * Facilitate or provide account access to Claude to persons or entities who are
   located in unsupported locations
 * Intentionally bypass capabilities or restrictions established within our
   products for the purposes of instructing the model to produce harmful outputs
   (e.g., jailbreaking or prompt injection) without an authorized use-case
   approved by Anthropic
 * Unauthorized utilization of prompts and completions to train an AI model
   (e.g., “model scraping”)

Do Not Generate Sexually Explicit Content

This includes the usage of our products or services to:

 * Depict or request sexual intercourse or sex acts
 * Generate content related to sexual fetishes or fantasies
 * Facilitate, promote, or depict incest or bestiality
 * Engage in erotic chats


HIGH-RISK USE CASE REQUIREMENTS

Some integrations (meaning use cases involving the use of our products and
services) pose an elevated risk of harm because they influence domains that are
vital to public welfare and social equity. “High-Risk Use Cases” include:



 * Legal: Integrations related to legal interpretation, legal guidance, or
   decisions with legal implications
 * Healthcare: Integrations affecting healthcare decisions, medical diagnosis,
   patient care, or medical guidance. Wellness advice (e.g., advice on sleep,
   stress, nutrition, exercise, etc.) does not fall under this category
 * Insurance: Integrations related to health, life, property, disability, or
   other types of insurance underwriting, claims processing, or coverage
   decisions
 * Finance: Integrations related to financial decisions, including investment
   advice, loan approvals, and determining financial eligibility or
   creditworthiness
 * Employment and housing: Integrations related to decisions about the
   employability of individuals, resume screening, hiring tools, or other
   employment determinations or decisions regarding eligibility for housing,
   including leases and home loans
 * Academic testing, accreditation and admissions: Integrations related to
   standardized testing companies that administer school admissions (including
   evaluating, scoring or ranking prospective students), language proficiency,
   or professional certification exams; agencies that evaluate and certify
   educational institutions.
 * Media or professional journalistic content: Integrations related to using our
   products or services to automatically generate content and publish it for
   external consumption



If your integration is listed above, we require that you implement the
additional safety measures listed below:

 * Human-in-the-loop: when using our products or services to provide advice,
   recommendations, or subjective decisions that directly impact individuals in
   high-risk domains, a qualified professional in that field must review the
   content or decision prior to dissemination or finalization. This requirement
   applies specifically to content or decisions that are provided to consumers
   or the general public, or decisions made about an individual. Your business
   is responsible for the accuracy and appropriateness of that information. For
   other types of content generation or interactions with users that do not
   involve direct advice, recommendations, or subjective decisions, human review
   is strongly encouraged but not mandatory.
 * Disclosure: you must disclose to your customers or end users that you are
   using our services to help inform your decisions or recommendations.



Disclosure Requirements

Finally, the below use cases – regardless of whether they are High Risk Use
Cases – must disclose to their users that they are interacting with an AI system
rather than a human:

 * All customer-facing chatbots including any external-facing or interactive AI
   agent
 * Products serving minors: Organizations providing minors with the ability to
   directly interact with products that incorporate our API(s). Note: These
   organizations must also comply with the additional guidelines outlined in our
   Help Center article

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