Anthropic updates their terms to verify age or identity
Anthropic updated its privacy policy to require age or identity verification for certain users, aiming to comply with evolving legal standards and enhance safety measures on its platform.
Background
Anthropic is the AI company behind Claude, a large language model (LLM) competitor to OpenAI's ChatGPT and Google's Gemini. This privacy policy update means that users may now be asked to verify their age or identity — likely via a government ID, credit card check, or similar method. This is part of a broader industry shift as AI companies face regulatory pressure (especially from children's privacy laws like COPPA in the US and the EU's Digital Services Act) and try to limit liability for harmful or inappropriate outputs. It also signals that free-tier or anonymous usage of Claude may become more restricted, and that Anthropic is preparing for more formal user identification as AI regulation matures.