Claude’s new rules against game cloning won’t stop the AI copying boom
Summary
Anthropic added two sentences to Claude Code’s prompt on Opus 5.5 to steer it away from recreating specific existing games, citing IP concerns. The article argues this is unlikely to curb the broader AI-driven game-cloning boom, as developers can switch models or rely on open-weight alternatives, raising questions about what constitutes a transformative work and how copyright should be enforced.