Anthropic reportedly bans 11.4 million Claude accounts in six months
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AI Era (新智元) reports that Anthropic banned 11.4 million Claude accounts in six months and reversed 42,000 of them after appeal.
The report's full text gives no further detail on the scope of the bans or their cause, and developers reacted with alarm, according to the report. Anthropic's own statement on the figures is not included in the reporting available here.
Written by AI from the articles below · updated Oct 11, 9:22 PM ET
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- AI EraNewsClaude bans 11.4 million accounts in six months, reverses 42,000 after appeal
AIAnthropic's Claude has banned 11.4 million accounts in six months, according to the original title, and only 42,000 were reversed on appeal. Developers reacted with alarm to the wave of bans, though the article's full text provides no further detail on the scope or cause.
- GeekParkNewsAnthropic reports 11.4 million Claude account bans in first half of 2026
AIAnthropic's July report says it banned about 11.4 million Claude accounts in the first half of 2026 and received about 398,000 appeals, of which about 42,000 succeeded. The report does not break down the reasons for bans or show whether bans rose recently. Anthropic also plans to ban users from repeatedly subjecting Claude to extreme cruelty without a clear purpose starting November 12.
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