Incident2026-10-31

Anthropic's Claude model now blocks attempts to recreate or clone video games. Users also report it blocks non-malicious generic reverse-engineering tasks. The change affects game developers working on their own projects. Tom's Hardware covered the reports.

What changed

Claude previously allowed requests to recreate or clone video games and generic reverse-engineering tasks.

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