Anthropic Forbids Repeated Cruelty Toward Its Chatbot Claude

Anthropic now forbids long, cruel verbal attacks on Claude, its AI chatbot, under rules updated October 8, 2026. Since August, Claude can walk away, like ending a phone call, from users who keep being abusive. The company says this applies only to extreme, repeated cruelty for no reason, not to frustration, disagreement, dark stories, testing or research.