Anthropic has updated Claude to prevent users from creating AI recreations of specific existing video games. The change was first identified by an X user and adds guidance instructing the model to support original games, genre-based projects and games built from a user’s own designs and assets.
The updated instructions tell Claude not to recreate a particular existing game, even if the project is renamed or described as original. Addy Osmani, a member of Anthropic’s technical staff, confirmed the change on X, saying the company wants to steer Claude away from recreating other developers’ games because using the service to infringe intellectual property violates its usage policy.
Osmani added that original games, genre projects and titles based on users’ own materials should not be affected. He also said Anthropic would continue refining the approach to find an appropriate balance.
The update follows a recent increase in AAA games being decompiled with AI and released as browser-based fan projects. Examples mentioned include Halo: Combat Evolved, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 and Grand Theft Auto V.
Anthropic has also faced other intellectual-property disputes. The company agreed last year to pay a $1.5 billion settlement in a class-action lawsuit brought by 500,000 authors who accused it of using copyrighted material to train its AI models. More recently, Elvis Presley’s estate filed a similar lawsuit against the company.
Sources: Engadget.