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Anthropic to Ban “Abusive or Cruel Behavior” Toward Claude 🤨
Gina Acosta & Gina Acosta
October 09, 2026
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Welcome to another edition of Horizon AI,
In today’s issue, we take a look at Google’s new site that lets anyone verify whether a piece of media, be it an image, a video, or an audio clip, was generated using AI.
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Here's what's new today in the Horizon AI
Anthropic Bans Abusive Behavior Toward Claude
Anthropic Adds Dashboard and Animation Tools to Claude
AI Tutorial: Identify AI-Generated Content with Google’s New SynthID Website
AI Tools to check out
AI Findings/Resources
The Latest in AI and Tech 💡
AI News
ANTHROPIC
Anthropic Bans Abusive Behavior Toward Claude
Anthropic has revised its usage policy, adding restrictions on how Claude can be used, from AI-generated propaganda and surveillance to prohibiting “abusive or cruel behavior” toward Claude AI models.
Details:
Anthropic clarified that the new policy update “is meant to apply only in extreme cases, where users repeatedly act cruelly toward our models, with no discernible purpose. It does not apply to common versions of user frustration, pushback, dark creative themes, or model testing and research.”
This builds on a change announced last August, when the company said Claude could end conversations with “persistently harmful or abusive” users as part of its research into “model welfare.”
The policy update also restricts deceptive political campaigns and expands weapons restrictions to cover not only weapons themselves but also the software and components used to operate them.
Claude also cannot be used to track people without consent, build surveillance tools, or recommend who should be investigated, arrested, or charged in criminal justice proceedings.
The updated policy takes effect on November 12.
Anthropic has been flirting with the idea that its AI models could be conscious in some way, which has drawn pushback from other parts of the AI industry. Mustafa Suleyman, for instance, said: “The idea of model welfare is wrong. … We reject the pursuit of legal personhood, or the idea that models might deserve welfare, or be entitled to rights.”
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ANTHROPIC
Anthropic Adds Dashboard and Animation Tools to Claude
Anthropic has introduced new tools that let users build data dashboards and create animations through Claude.
Details:
Claude Dashboards is available in beta on paid plans. It connects to business data platforms and customer management systems, allowing users to create live dashboards and analyze data using plain language.
Claude Motion is in beta for Team and Enterprise customers. It lets users create and edit animations, then export them as video files.
Anthropic says the tools are designed to help users analyze business data and produce visual content without coding.
Anthropic has also made Claude Docs, Slides, and Design generally available across all Claude plans following their beta testing.
AI Tutorial
Identify AI-Generated Content with Google’s New SynthID Website
Go to SynthID Detector and sign in. It is available to everyone, globally.
Upload your file.
The site supports JPG, JPEG, PNG, BMP, WEBP, AVIF, HEIC, HEIF, TIFF, TIF, and GIF for images; MP4, MOV, and WEBM for videos; and WAV, MP3, OGG, FLAC, AAC, and M4A for audio.
It will show whether the file was made or edited with AI and which tool was used.
Note: With the SynthID Detector, you can check whether an image, video, or audio file was made with AI from Google or its partners, including OpenAI, NVIDIA, Kakao, and soon Apple. Microsoft and Meta have their own standards for watermarking and verifying content.
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🍋 Lemon: The voice-to-prompt AI that turns your thoughts into clear, powerful prompts in ChatGPT, Claude, Cursor and all your AI apps.
🔬 FigEditor: AI scientific figure generator for editable research figures.
AI Findings/Resources
😬 With the updated policy, the guy who built a digital whip for Claude Code might be in trouble
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Three OpenAI safety researchers have posted an open letter to OpenAI disputing their dismissals. They claim they were fired for “prioritising safety over the near-term interests of OpenAI as a corporation.”
The company has launched OSS Scanner, a free service that uses its AI models, including Claude Mythos, to periodically scan participating open source projects for security vulnerabilities.
The group accuses OpenAI of violating core norms of scientific research by publishing the AI proofs, and it is urging mathematicians to stop working with the company.
USA Today Co. and several local newspapers it owns have sued OpenAI, alleging the company copied hundreds of thousands of articles without permission to train its AI models. The lawsuit seeks more than $250 million in damages and adds to a growing number of copyright disputes between publishers and AI companies.
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