Claude’s new rules against game cloning won’t stop the AI copying boom
Summary
Anthropic added instructions to Claude Code that steer the model away from recreating specific existing video games while allowing original games and projects based on users’ own designs and assets. The change may limit some requests, but the article says it is unlikely to halt AI-assisted game copying, porting and decompilation, which have grown rapidly.Key Facts
- The new instruction says Claude should not recreate a specific existing game, even under a different name.
- Anthropic software engineer Addy Osmani said the prompt change applies to Claude Code on Opus 5.5 and is intended to prevent intellectual-property infringement.
- XDA reported that the rule appears in Claude Code version 2.1.314, released October 30.
- Anthropic said original games, genre games and games made from users’ own designs and assets should remain allowed.
- Some developers have reported that the new instruction interferes with certain game-development uses.
- AI coding tools have made game decompilation and porting much faster, according to the article.
- The decompilation community decomp.dev announced it was shutting down last month, citing the effects of improving AI tools and changes to community participation.
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