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Claude strengthens security against AI misuse

Claude is working to stop bad actors from using its AI to create harmful systems, like scraping passwords.

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Claude is working to stop bad actors from using its AI to create harmful systems, like scraping passwords.

Anthropic, the company behind Claude, shared that it found and stopped a sophisticated user who was trying to use Claude's AI to build systems for scraping passwords and gaining unauthorized access to security cameras. This shows Claude is actively monitoring and preventing misuse of its powerful AI tools to keep users safe.

Anthropic is developing new safeguards to prevent users from employing Claude and other frontier models to orchestrate social media bot-based abuse systems.

This initiative aims to counter the emerging threat of semi-autonomous abuse systems.

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