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Claude is only available to people over 18 years

301 pointsby Muhammad523today at 10:48 AM376 commentsview on HN

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soltanovtoday at 11:41 AM

Everyone shares their all kinds of data with ai companies. Privacy is dead anyway

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MoreClaudesloptoday at 2:38 PM

No one cares

drchaimtoday at 11:32 AM

the same way social networks are not available for < 13

mayhemduckstoday at 12:56 PM

Now I feel better. Just needed to watch this. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fgmFhjAaWFQ

klausatoday at 11:30 AM

> May 19, 2026

ReptileMantoday at 12:33 PM

>You’ll have the option to verify your age using Yoti, a third-party age verification platform.

Thank goodness that there are others on the frontier.

b112today at 12:10 PM

Since May?

thrownaway561today at 11:58 AM

DeepSeek is the BEST model for the money. Why people still waste money on Claude is beyond me.

idiotsecanttoday at 11:38 AM

I barely am using my Claude subscription anymore anyhow. If they make me ID for it I'll simply cancel and use an open model.

singularity2001today at 12:34 PM

It's really a head to head race between these two companies. Which one is more disgusting etc?

theahuratoday at 3:08 PM

i get that there is a vocal contingent yelling about kids using AI tools, and frankly I also think things like character.ai are potentially really harmful, but this is like saying you have to be age verified to use google

matheusmoreiratoday at 11:13 AM

Think of the children, won't you?

Tsarptoday at 11:54 AM

Ah yes, the usual drop down where we need to confirm we are above 18.

Claudelmfaotoday at 11:15 AM

Do they even know what it is?

Offbrand LLM - I don’t think they care

AnslopicH8today at 11:33 AM

Anyone else sick of these Claude articles???

We get it. Anslopic the “me too” company has a “me too” LLM.

Do you have to ram this shit down our throats everyday!???

Fucking hell. Enough of god damn CLAUDE.

Stop the hourly Anslopic ads for fucks sake!!!!

Thanks

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Hizonnertoday at 1:26 PM

Another example of AV doing serious damage to the people it claims to "help". Must be a day ending in 'y'.

pannytoday at 1:20 PM

Techbros: It's fine to demand ID verification for everything, except voting, because that's racist.

But, it's nice that Anthropic is finally admitting claude is just a casino of code. Keep pulling that one armed bandit, maybe you'll get the right code next time.

dev1ycantoday at 12:59 PM

The real reason they're doing this is because most minors can't pay lmao

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anon48293today at 3:23 PM

Great to see the AI ecosystem finally mature /s

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antireztoday at 11:24 AM

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.

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