Anthropic's Addy Osmani confirms the change
1 Oct 30 2:00 PM · 13d ago · 2 articles · 1 post · 2 sources · development 1 of 3
Anthropic staffer Addy Osmani posted on X confirming the two added sentences were meant to steer Claude away from recreating specific games under its IP usage policy, while preserving original and genre games.
“We added two sentences to Claude Code's prompt on Opus 5.5 to steer it away from recreating someone else's specific game because using Claude to infringe IP is against our usage policy.”
Addy OsmaniAddy Osmani Anthropic member of technical staffAnthropic Developer of Claude and Claude CodeChasm X user who discovered the ruleDigital Sun Games Indie game studio
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first by Mastodon, 12d ago · also Tom's Hardware, Mashable
3 more headlines
- Anthropic's Claude AI blocks video game cloning and reverse-engineering Tom's Hardware · 12d ago
- Anthropic takes steps to block Claude from reverse-engineering video games Mashable · 12d ago
- Anthropic tells Claude to stop remaking video games Mastodon · 11d ago
What people said 12 voices · best of 14 · verbatim
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My great hope is that we will look back on this as a tiny sliver of time, when everyone couldn't resist the awesome power that came with running our devtools over the internet through megacorps, willingly handing over our code and secrets and dollars, in exchange for those sweet lines of code.But then in the waning months of 2026, some inspired…
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Some context to this, there's been a bunch of discussion in indie game development spaces about how it might be risky to release demos, or any information really, since a bunch of (probably? can't necessarily assume now.) people seem to immediately try to clone it with agents. It's to the extent I've seen genuine confusion about which game is the…
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It's netiher, at least not in a way relevant to the question here.It's a privately owned service, and it's theirs to decide what they want to do with it. Continuing on your parable, if you paid someone to compile your software, of course they could say one day that they decided to not not compile weapons guidance software or whatever. It happens…
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The most important secret of the atomic bomb was that it could be built at all. That's the same way I feel about Anthropic's products (increasingly, tech demos rather than products, if you go off the happy path.) They've demonstrated what is possible. Now I'm hoping for a fistful of rivals to build functional equivalents.I'm still an Anthropic…
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Anthropic (and others) mass harvested source code from around the internet while ignoring licenses to build their product. That's of course allowed (by them).Using the trained model to create certain types of software that they already harvested, not allowed?What's the difference between having the model make a game and writing any other software?…
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Can you imagine a devtools company deciding, "Actually, no, we're going to police what kind of programs you can compile" ?They need to decide of AI is a technology or an ideology. We cannot afford to blend the two, or we're going to end up as some kind of perverted global theocracy.
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So we are going from running your stuff from cloud that randomly closes accounts or charges ridiculous costs to pinpointing arbitrary AI use cases and banning them on a whim. I guess that's progress !?Indeed, cloud == other peoples computers, with all what it entails.
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Ironic how they are playing "ethics and morals" given they trained their entire models for years upon copyrighted work from the entire planet (and who knows what else). Do what I say not what I do. Karma will hit them hard if they continue this path
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It's the natural consequence of a few companies having all of the compute resources. They can do whatever they want since the alternative for users is to pay out the nose for hardware to run a model that isn't SOTA.
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Easy to see the slippery slope from "safety" to "DRM". Abliterated/open models will become increasingly important for AI freedom if they aren't made illegal first...
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Mark my words: AI will only be allowed to destroy the software engineering profession, but somehow protectionism will be enforced for everything else in the name of “safety” and “fairness”.
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This is pretty interesting given that the entire video game industry, indie developers excluded, suffers from a serious case of sequalitis.
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