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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

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This will mean the next generation will grow up with open source AI. High schools and junior colleges offering computer courses will have to give their students different coding tools than the industry standard.

Good, the less capable they are, the more students will actually have to learn.

Re: Claude is only available to people over 18 years

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> You may trust them with your money, but does not equate to trusting them with any other PII. This doesn't really make any sense and it feels like it's just an attempt to be contrarian. Banks by law require substantial PII in order to even do business with you.

> Banks by law require substantial PII in order to even do business with you. And those laws are extremely invasive and should be repealed. It's offensive to have a law that de facto requires you to identify yourself in order to pay for a newspaper subscription or buy contraceptives over the internet. But that's not the issue in this case. It's that the bank knows your name and what you buy -- already very bad -- but…

Can't you pay cash for things like Visa gift cards and use them online?

Re: Claude is only available to people over 18 years

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Need we remind Anthropic of the 153 million drirvers licenses available for sale on the dark web thanks to a 3rd party ID verification service? https://krebsonsecurity.com/2026/09/fbi-probes-service-selli... The fact that Anthropic only receives a result, not the data itself, does not make me feel any better about this. I really wish we could leave these types of decisions up to parents and parents only. Leave the co…

> I really wish we could leave these types of decisions up to parents and parents only. I am strongly sympathetic of this point. But, also, children with shitty parents deserve as much safety and support as they can get too. This is an extremely difficult balancing act. Various laws and organizations get it wrong all the time, but it does require balance because there is no simple solution here that just works. There…

I'm tired of giving up privacy in the name of children. Children are were and will be fine even without my access to internet being gated by a gov issued ID thank you very much

Re: Claude is only available to people over 18 years

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> http header indicating that the client is a child-locked device what happens when the request goes through a proxy and that proxy is configured to strip this header?

Websites that don't cooperate would need to be blocked by child-locked devices. That part wouldn't be any different from today.

Do you even know what a proxy is? It has nothing to do with website cooperating or not

Re: Claude is only available to people over 18 years

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> If you'd told me 15 years ago that people would be running freely-distributed software originating from research labs in China on computers self-hosted in their own house as an alternative to authoritarian overreach and control by the US in internet-based services, I'd have told you that you were smoking some good reefer. It’s a lot less surprising when you understand the tactic of economic dumping, which China has…

> They’re doing it as a way to undermine the industry leaders and attract people to their brands. I'm not seeing a problem here; don't all companies have this goal?

The problem isn't the goal, it's using vast money reserves to sell at a loss and hamper competition.

Re: Claude is only available to people over 18 years

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post #558

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> http header indicating that the client is a child-locked device what happens when the request goes through a proxy and that proxy is configured to strip this header?

The Web is HTTPS now, so that can only happen if either the origin server or the user trusts the proxy.

User uses a proxy to bypass the client side validation, that’s the first thing I would have done as a teenager

Re: Claude is only available to people over 18 years

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> * In a just society, your opportunity in life should not depend on being lucky with who your parents are. The vast majority of people are raised by their birth parents which means 0 luck was involved. You are here due to their actions and are who you are due to their combined genes and situation.

i.e., luck

And 2 is lucky it is the sum of 1+1.

Re: Claude is only available to people over 18 years

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post #474

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> children with shitty parents deserve as much safety and support as they can get too. I know my opinion is not popular, but I do not agree that it is the states responsibility to pick up the slack for bad parenting.

Define bad parenting? Should the state do nothing about children not being sent to school? Should they go hungry when not fed? Should we just throw the kids in jail instead of programs that provide support? The libertarian "eh whatever" means of government has a lot of negative side effects too.

Who decides what is bad parenting? You tread on dangerous grounds.

Re: Claude is only available to people over 18 years

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> When we detect signals that you may be under 18, we'll ask you to verify your age before you can continue using Claude. I'm curious what those signals are. Would this trigger it? "My mom says I can't stay out past 10pm, is that fair?" edit: I just tested my question in Claude, and the little thought process text that appears below a question just said "Noticing signs of a younger person in the message." But then it…

The CoT isn't necessarily showing that it ran a classifier. The system prompt has:

> If Claude suspects it's talking with a minor, it keeps the conversation friendly, age-appropriate, and free of anything unsuitable for young people. Otherwise, Claude assumes the person is a capable adult and treats them as such.

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