Should you say “please” to a chatbot? One company thinks so

Michael Knief

Posted Monday, November 2, 2026 11:12 am

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Anthropic, the company behind the Claude AI chatbot, updated its usage policy to ban sustained and needless cruelty toward its AI models. The rule takes effect Nov. 12. (Michael Knief/AP Content Services for Anthropic)

Being rude to a chatbot could soon get you kicked off. Anthropic, the company behind the AI assistant Claude, is banning users from being “sustained and needless” cruel to its AI models, CNN reported.

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