Claude has just been updated to prevent users from recreating existing video games, as many AI-powered fan game projects are bringing AAA blockbusters to the browser.

Anthropic has updated Claude to prevent the AI ​​tool from helping users create copies of copyrighted video games. The change was first discovered by a user on social network X, through some new instructions added to Claude's code.

Specifically, Anthropic requested that Claude could still support the development of original games, games of a certain genre, or projects based on designs and resources provided by users themselves. However, the tool may not create copies of a specific game that already exists, even if the user renames it or calls it the original product.

Addy Osmani, a member of Anthropic's technical team, confirmed this change on X. According to him, the company wants Claude to avoid recreating a specific game from another party, because using AI to infringe on intellectual property rights goes against the platform's usage policy.

Osmani emphasized that original game projects, games by genre or built from users' own designs and resources remain unaffected. Anthropic will also continue to adapt to find the right balance between creative support and intellectual property protection.

This move comes in the context of more and more projects using AI to decode AAA games, then recreate them into versions that can be played directly in the browser. Recently, fan projects have brought games like Halo: Combat Evolved, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 and even Grand Theft Auto V to the web through AI programming.

This is not the first time Anthropic has been involved in issues related to intellectual property rights. Last year, the company agreed to pay a $1.5 billion settlement in a class action lawsuit, after about 500,000 authors accused Anthropic of using copyrighted material to train AI models.

More recently, Elvis Presley's estate also filed a lawsuit against Anthropic with similar allegations. Against this backdrop, the addition of limits on available game reproduction shows that the company is continuing to tighten the grip on how Claude handles requests that pose a risk of copyright infringement.