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No. 155

Anthropic moves to block Claude from video-game cloning and reverse-engineering

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three outlets report the same change: Claude is now refusing requests to recreate or clone video games, and Tom's Hardware reports users also claim non-malicious generic reverse-engineering tasks are being blocked. That second claim is user-reported, not confirmed by Anthropic in these reports — worth watching, since a broad reverse-engineering refusal would hit legitimate fleet REA work. (Three reports of one story, grouped as one entry.) Tom's Hardware · Game Developer ·

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