Anthropic clamps down on Claude’s AI video game clones
Anthropic has updated the system prompt for its Claude Code tool to explicitly prohibit users from creating direct clones of existing video games. The company stated this measure is intended to prevent intellectual property infringement while still allowing for the development of original games.
Why it matters
This move highlights the growing tension between AI development and copyright law, as companies attempt to mitigate legal risks associated with generative AI tools.
Anthropic has updated Claude Code’s system prompt to prevent the AI tool from being used to recreate existing video games, as reported by Tom’s Hardware. Retro gaming is currently being overrun with AI-made decompilations, recompilations, and ports, but while Anthropic will still let people use Claude Code to make games, it doesn’t want people to use it for direct clones.
Last week, a user on X posted a screenshot allegedly showing two new sentences added to Claude Code’s system prompt: “Do build original games, games in a genre, and games from the user’s own designs and assets. Don’t build a recreation of a specific existing game, even if it is named or called original.”
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