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Claude is only available to people over 18 years
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Re: Claude is only available to people over 18 years
#12But why?
Since Epstein is gone, the ruling class have become obsessed with collecting photos of children and identifying devices they use. Strange that.
Re: Claude is only available to people over 18 years
#13This isn't recent, right?
The date on the help article is May 18, 2026.
Re: Claude is only available to people over 18 years
#14Think of the children, won't you?
Re: Claude is only available to people over 18 years
#15Good that we have Chinese models now, we can host anywhere and use as much as we like without age verification.
Also, what's the reason banning minors? Is AI bad for mental health? If so, should companies also ban them to prevent burnout of their employees?
Re: Claude is only available to people over 18 years
#16But why?
Health.
The health of e.g. Anthropic PR when everyone realises the product rots young brains.
Re: Claude is only available to people over 18 years
#17In Germany, this seems to be the case for a long time already. I'm not sure if that's really what happened, but a few months ago my son (who's 17) complained that Claude locked him out when he was discussion school work and mentioning his age in a conversation. I did not see the conversation, but I could verify that his account was indeed banned.
Re: Claude is only available to people over 18 years
#18But why?
Dealing with minors has lots of rules and reglementation, for good reason, and usually the justice system of functional countries don't allow you to bypass those with "don't know, didn't ask", because duh of course not.
Using kids data to train? No no. Talking to kids about certain matters (it's still fairly easy to make those model go into drugs or sex or suicide or whatever). No no.
Re: Claude is only available to people over 18 years
#19I wonder if part of the reason is that minors are not capable of entering into legally binding agreements. So maybe they're trying to enforce adherence to the terms of service. Dunno.