Anthropic says Claude may want to see your ID
Anthropic says Claude may want to see your ID
Anthropic 表示 Claude 可能需要核验你的身份证件
Anthropic may ask Claude users to verify their age and identity by uploading their government-issued documents, according to a new version of the company’s privacy policy. The AI giant says the move was to allow users to appeal having their account flagged for potentially fraudulent activity rather than outright banning them, but comes at a time when Anthropic seeks to placate the Trump administration amid an ongoing standoff over who gets access to the company’s AI tools. 根据 Anthropic 公司最新版隐私政策，该公司可能会要求 Claude 用户上传政府签发的证件以核验年龄和身份。这家人工智能巨头表示，此举旨在让那些因涉嫌欺诈活动而被标记的账户拥有申诉机会，而非直接封禁。然而，此举正值 Anthropic 在与特朗普政府就谁能使用其 AI 工具的持续僵局中，试图安抚后者之际。
According to a new section in its latest privacy policy published earlier in June and set to take effect on July 8, Anthropic says it will ask for a user to prove their age or identity “in certain circumstances,” without providing specific examples. While Anthropic has long required users to be over 18 to use Claude, the company earlier this year introduced age-verification checks to comply with various states and countries that require them. Identity checks were also announced but weren’t reflected in the company’s privacy policy until more recently. 根据 6 月初发布并定于 7 月 8 日生效的最新隐私政策中的一个新章节，Anthropic 表示将在“特定情况下”要求用户证明其年龄或身份，但未提供具体示例。虽然 Anthropic 长期以来一直要求用户年满 18 岁才能使用 Claude，但该公司今年早些时候引入了年龄验证检查，以符合多个州和国家的相关法律要求。身份核验也曾被提及，但直到最近才反映在公司的隐私政策中。
When triggered, the policy would require those users to upload a photo scan of a government-issued passport or driver’s license. Anthropic says it will also collect a person’s selfie photo or video and the person’s digitized version as a face geometry template (which some states, like Illinois, consider to be legally protected biometric data). Anthropic says it will also keep a record of the verification result, such as whether the user has reached a certain age. 一旦触发该政策，用户将被要求上传政府签发的护照或驾照的照片扫描件。Anthropic 表示，还将收集用户的自拍照或视频，并将其数字化为面部几何模板（伊利诺伊州等一些州将其视为受法律保护的生物识别数据）。Anthropic 还表示，将保留验证结果的记录，例如用户是否已达到特定年龄。
When reached by TechCrunch, Anthropic spokesperson Michael Aciman shared a link to an X post from Anthropic’s Thariq Shihipar saying that the change applies only to a “small subset of users” whose accounts are flagged but not outright banned. (Anthropic’s spokesperson would not say how many users is a subset, but the company is thought to have tens of millions of users monthly.) “[Anthropic’s identity verification policy] was updated on June 17 as an update to the appeals process,” said Shihipar in the post. “It’s unrelated to the Fable or Mythos rollout.” 在接受 TechCrunch 采访时，Anthropic 发言人 Michael Aciman 分享了公司员工 Thariq Shihipar 在 X 上发布的一条帖子链接，称该变更仅适用于“一小部分”被标记但未被直接封禁的用户。（Anthropic 发言人未透露这一“小部分”具体涉及多少用户，但据信该公司每月拥有数千万活跃用户。）Shihipar 在帖文中表示：“[Anthropic 的身份验证政策] 于 6 月 17 日更新，作为申诉流程的一部分。这与 Fable 或 Mythos 的发布无关。”
Anthropic said it is allowed to require users to upload a copy of their IDs for a number of reasons, such as for requiring users to verify themselves for creating and administering their Claude account, and enforcing its terms of service, such as to prevent and investigate fraud, abuse, and violations of its terms, including unlawful or criminal conduct, and to investigate and resolve security issues. Anthropic 表示，出于多种原因，其有权要求用户上传身份证件副本，例如要求用户在创建和管理 Claude 账户时进行身份验证，以及执行其服务条款，包括预防和调查欺诈、滥用及违反条款的行为（如非法或犯罪行为），并调查和解决安全问题。
The move to keep closer tabs on who is using Anthropic’s AI tools may be one way for the company to comply with a variety of ongoing legal challenges, regulatory changes, and inbound pressures from the Trump administration. The tech giant remains largely at an impasse with the White House, more than a week after Trump officials effectively forced Anthropic to pull its latest cybersecurity models over allegations that an apparent jailbreak could break the models’ guardrails. 加强对 AI 工具使用者的监管，可能是该公司应对当前各种法律挑战、监管变化以及来自特朗普政府压力的途径之一。在特朗普政府官员以“明显的越狱行为可能破坏模型护栏”为由，强制要求 Anthropic 下架其最新网络安全模型一周多后，这家科技巨头与白宫之间仍处于僵局。
Other reports have pointed to personality clashes between the company and the Trump administration as the greater culprit of the breakdown in relations. This latest clash comes months after the Department of Defense designated Anthropic a “supply chain risk”, apparently in retaliation for not allowing the government to use its technology for mass domestic surveillance or powering fully autonomous weapons. 其他报道指出，公司与特朗普政府之间的人格冲突是导致关系破裂的更主要原因。此次冲突发生前几个月，美国国防部将 Anthropic 列为“供应链风险”企业，这显然是因为该公司拒绝允许政府将其技术用于大规模国内监控或驱动全自动武器。
Anthropic said it uses the San Francisco-based company Persona as its identity-checking provider and that users may “see a verification prompt when accessing certain capabilities, as part of our routine platform integrity checks, or other safety and compliance measures.” Anthropic said that it decides how long Persona will retain its users’ identity documents, but Anthropic’s spokesperson did not immediately say when the data was deleted. Anthropic 表示，其使用总部位于旧金山的 Persona 公司作为身份核验服务商，用户在“访问某些功能时，作为我们常规平台完整性检查或其他安全与合规措施的一部分，可能会看到验证提示”。Anthropic 表示，其决定 Persona 保留用户身份文件的时长，但发言人未立即说明数据何时会被删除。
(For context, Roblox, another customer of Persona, says users’ images are deleted “immediately” after they are processed, limiting the chance of the information later being leaked or stolen.) Persona can still face U.S. government demands for users’ information that it stores on its servers. Persona is backed by Founders Fund, an investment firm founded by Trump backer Peter Thiel, who also invests in Anthropic. The identity-checking firm has faced criticism from users for its links to Thiel. Earlier this year, Discord chose Persona for its age-verification checks, then quickly reneged following user backlash for choosing Persona. （作为背景，Persona 的另一位客户 Roblox 表示，用户图像在处理后会“立即”删除，从而降低了信息后续被泄露或窃取的风险。）Persona 仍可能面临美国政府对其服务器所存储用户信息的调取要求。Persona 由 Founders Fund 支持，该投资公司由特朗普的支持者彼得·蒂尔（Peter Thiel）创立，而蒂尔同时也投资了 Anthropic。这家身份核验公司因与蒂尔的关联而遭到用户批评。今年早些时候，Discord 曾选择 Persona 进行年龄验证，但在遭到用户抵制后迅速放弃了该服务。