Claude is only available to people over 18 years

sebmellen

Interesting that they’ve switched from Persona to Yoti. But what a strange move, with no justification in the article!!

umuttalha0

if claude ask me verification i will drop using it thats it

sidcool

This isn't recent, right?

edukite

And TikTok is not available for minors in Poland yet a know 11y old who publish there so yeah, good to pretend

matheusmoreira

Think of the children, won't you?

throwaw12

Good 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?

planb

In 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.

TutleCpt

I 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.

Claudelmfao

Do they even know what it is? Offbrand LLM - I don’t think they care

pr337h4m

The dehumanization of children and teenagers is getting out of hand.

embedding-shape

Claude Executive: Damn, we hardly know who our users are, can't we just force them to say their full name or ban them? Claude Product Manager: No, that'll piss people off too much, and sadly we can't just ask for ID either... Claude Executive: There must be some way we can force people to link their government IDs with our platform so our analytics get better and more accurate? Claude Product Manager: We could limit the platform to 18+ and use "Age Verification" as the reason for people to hand over IDs, seems other platforms had success with this approach Claude Executive: And we hardly have any users younger than 18 anyway, go for it!

jerpint

Interesting. Is this their first move towards properly implementing KYC? At some point you have to consider Anthropic liable if Claude is used for something nefarious and they didn’t even bother to know who was using their product to begin with.

mbrezu

Get off my load-bearing lawn!

scronkfinkle

I once heard someone suggest that this should be on the OS level and I'm slowly coming around to the idea. There should be some kind of OS level flag that can easily broadcast to products that a child is using the device. No ID verification required, the parent is responsible for setting it, and all downstream applications are regulated to respect it, If applicable to the product. This removes the incredibly invasive ID verification, and places responsibility on the people responsible for the minor. Companies like meta then can be sued not for failing to detect children (this is, evidently, not working on any platform trying to enforce this currently), but instead can be judged in a black and white manner (i.e. is the child version of meta too predatory to children?)

pendenthistory

Seems like a terrible thing to cut off young creators who use this technology productively.

antirez

Anthropic is incredibly good at avoiding all the useless AI risks, while not doing anything serious about the real risks (that is: uncontrolled growth). I'm as pro-AI as I think that eventually it will remove suffering from humans, and will allow us to prosper more and help us with tons of problems we created. However the problem is not job loss or minors using AI (minors are fucked because of cell phones and social networks), the problem is avoiding extinction. For this position I was accused of AI psychosis multiple times, but I'm in good company (Hinton, for instance), so I bet some comment that trivializes this issue will surely reply to this one, but at this point it is important to see what everyone really believes. Anthropic only touches the surface of AI security, consistently.

sdcfgy

What will our outsourcers use now?

klausa

> May 19, 2026