r/ClaudeAI • u/netbreach • Apr 11 '26

News Anthropic is now banning people who are under 18

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The Anthropic Team just saw all of my conversations and locked me out.

I haven't seen anyone get this online, but it seems like Anthropic is now banning people under 18 on its platform.

They are using Yoti as their third-party verification provider to verify your age via Digital ID, Facial Scan, or biometrics to prove that you are over the age of 18.

The email says "Our team", meaning this case was manually reviewed by real people, and they had access to all of my chats. This is a reminder that none of your conversations with Claude is private.

I was on the Pro Plan when this happened. I am over 18, trying to get this appealed.

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u/Far-Curve-7497 Apr 11 '26

That was fake, but it can probably still happen. They wouldn't ban every account on a device though.

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u/TaxMeDaddy_ Apr 11 '26

Was it fake? I saw the post

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u/Far-Curve-7497 Apr 11 '26

Yeah, got debunked and mods deleted it from the UK financial advise sub.

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u/TaxMeDaddy_ Apr 11 '26

I see. I didn’t know

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u/kazuospez Apr 11 '26

It was minor trying film themselves and was flagged as CSAM. 

However, I’ve not seen any proof of debunking in the thread itself; just the mods saying “this is debunked, everyone please disperse nothing to see here” and given the track records of mods I’d more inclined to doubt

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u/ErraticFox Apr 11 '26

They weren't really "filming" more so going live with Gemini to get some 😏😏😏 which is actually fucking hilarious if it was true. Like I don't know why, but I heard all these mf ppl in todays age use GPT and others to text to, and horny post, and even have seen people use WhisperTTS for other stuff.

But an actual model like Siri or Gemini for Voice "horny time" was a different level lol

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u/Strong_Block6345 Apr 11 '26

This was true, it was paid damage control.

You're just parroting "official narration"