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Anthropic: a game rule, cyber blocks
Anthropic confirms a game rule, and its own 6 October post says its public models block most cyber work.
“Anthropic's Claude AI blocks video game cloning and reverse-engineering, with sweeping new restrictions that also hit legitimate developers and basic troubleshooting tasks.”
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Anthropic's Addy Osmani confirms two sentences in Claude Code's prompt on Opus 5.5 against recreating someone else's specific game, and Anthropic's 6 October post says its public models have safeguards that block most cyber work.
The twist
Anthropic names reverse-engineering malware, not games or crash dumps, and the reported refusals of that everyday work are still user claims.
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Receipts
- Supports tomshardware.com:
According to multiple user claims, Anthropic's Claude Code and/or Opus 5.5 model are blocking attempts at innocuous reverse-engineering
- Context tomshardware.com:
sweeping new restrictions also hit legitimate developers and basic troubleshooting tasks
- Context tomshardware.com:
There is no official or additional confirmation if this is the actual rule text
- Context tomshardware.com:
The simultaneous timing of both game- and cyber-security restrictions may be a coincidence
- Context tomshardware.com:
it's odd to see that 24 days have passed since then
- Supports gamedeveloper.com:
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
- Supports gamedeveloper.com:
Do not build a recreation of a specific existing game, even if it is renamed or called original.
- Context gamedeveloper.com:
Chasm reports that there is no way to disable the rule.
- Context pcgamer.com:
In the meantime, if Claude turns down something that's yours, send it my way.
- Context tomshardware.com:
Anthropic's Claude AI blocks video game cloning and reverse-engineering
- Supports tomshardware.com:
at least one is a bona fide developer with a real track record
- Context tomshardware.com:
Anthropic introduced its Cyber Verification Program on October 6
- Context gamedeveloper.com:
X (formerly Twitter) user Chasm said that they spotted an update to Claude Code's "rules"
- Supports anthropic.com:
have conservative cyber safeguards that block most cyber work. This is intended to limit the harmful activities malicious actors can carry out using our models, while we continue to work to reduce false positives for secure coding.
- Context anthropic.com:
is for defensive work, including security operations center and incident response tasks, reverse-engineering malware, and analyzing and validating vulnerabilities.
- Context anthropic.com:
Our generally available models can continue to be used for tasks such as code review, patching known issues, vulnerability finding in owned source code, and triage of security alerts.
- Context tomshardware.com:
restrictions may be a coincidence, and yet there are complaints from purported game developers saying that Claude blocked their own games' anti-cheat development and security reviews
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