Anthropic updates Claude to avoid recreating specific video games
Original title: Anthropic clamps down on Claude’s AI video game clones
Anthropic steers Claude Code away from direct clones of existing titles while still allowing original game creation.
Anthropic updated the system prompt in Claude Code on Opus 5.5 to prevent the AI from recreating specific existing video games. The change follows complaints about AI-generated decompilations and ports of retro games. The prompt now instructs to build original games or games from the user’s own designs and assets but not to recreate a specific existing game even if named or called original. Anthropic added the sentences to comply with its usage policy on IP infringement. Original games and genre games remain allowed.
- Prompt updated on Opus 5.5
- Targets direct recreation of specific titles
- Users can still make their own games from designs and assets
- Vendors
- Anthropic
- Products
- Claude Code
- AI models
- Opus 5.5
From the original article
2 min read at theverge.com
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.
By Jay Peters · theverge.com
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