Anthropic Stops Claude From Recreating Existing Video Games
The change narrows what users can ask Claude to build, while original games and genre games remain allowed.
Anthropic has changed Claude's instructions so it will no longer build recreations of specific existing video games, even when the request is renamed or labelled as original. Users can still ask for original games, games in an established genre, or games built from their own designs and assets. The change followed an X user's discovery of the new wording, which a member of Anthropic's technical staff, Addy Osmani, later confirmed, citing the company's usage policy against using Claude to infringe intellectual property. Osmani said the company will keep adjusting the policy to strike the right balance. The move comes as AAA titles such as Halo: Combat Evolved, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 and Grand Theft Auto V have appeared as AI-assisted fan projects playable in browsers, and it follows Anthropic's $1.5 billion settlement over copyrighted training material and a new lawsuit from the estate of Elvis Presley.
Why it matters
For people following AI tools, the change marks a clearer line on what a general-purpose assistant will build when the request copies someone else's work. Renaming or labelling a copy as original no longer gets around the rule, so the boundary now depends on the substance of the request rather than its wording. Anthropic has also said it will keep adjusting the policy, which suggests the line is still being drawn rather than settled.
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