Anthropic updates Claude to stop it from recreating existing video games
Users can still lean on Claude to help with designing original or genre games.
Anthropic recently updated its AI model Claude to prevent users from recreating existing video games using the technology. The company introduced new guidelines instructing users to build original games, games within a genre, or create games using their own designs and assets. However, Claude would not be allowed to generate a reproduction of a specific existing game, even if renamed or labeled as original.
This change was confirmed by Addy Osmani, a technical staff member at Anthropic, who stated that the company aims to steer users away from infringing on intellectual property rights as per their usage policy. Osmani further clarified that any original game or game created using a user's own ideas and assets should remain unaffected.
This move comes amid a trend of AAA games being decompiled using AI and made available on browser-based platforms. Recent examples include AI-generated versions of Halo: Combat Evolved, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, and Grand Theft Auto V. Anthropic has a track record of addressing intellectual property concerns, having recently settled a class action lawsuit with 500,000 authors for using copyrighted material to train its AI models, and more recently, facing a legal challenge from Elvis Presley's estate over similar issues.
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