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Anthropic clamps down on Claude’s AI video game clones
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Anthropic is steering Claude away from recreating specific titles, but users can still use it to make their own games.
Anthropic is steering Claude away from recreating specific titles, but users can still use it to make their own games.
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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.
Last week, a user on X posted a screenshot allegedly showing two new sentences added to Claude Code’s system prompt: “Do build original games, games in a genre, and games from the user’s own designs and assets. Don’t build a recreation of a specific existing game, even if it is named or called original.”
Anthropic’s Addy Osmani, in a reply, didn’t confirm that specific language but did say that the company had updated the prompt in Claude Code on Opus 5.5: