Anthropic revises Claude usage policy, banning user abuse of models for the first time

According to The Verge, Anthropic revised Claude's usage policy, effective November 12, 2026, adding for the first time a clause prohibiting "persistent and unnecessary abuse or cruelty" toward the model, primarily enforced by terminating conversations. This clause does not apply to common complaints, skepticism, dark creative themes, or model testing and research; the policy also expands weapon bans, prohibits use in surveillance and law enforcement object determination, and requires autonomous physical hardware to be supervised by qualified operators.