NPCs, dialogue, and LLMs Anthropic Claude
Can you ship a game made with Anthropic Claude? Commercial terms are only partly verified. This is not a yes. The Consumer Terms cover Claude.ai, Claude Pro, and other individual plans. Subject to compliance, Anthropic assigns you its rights in Outputs. The terms do not split this by free or paid plan.
The commercial-use, ownership, license caveat, and Steam disclosure rows for Anthropic Claude. The summary below is generated from verified rows only. It is not legal advice.
Commercial terms are only partly verified. This is not a yes.
The Consumer Terms cover Claude.ai, Claude Pro, and other individual plans. Subject to compliance, Anthropic assigns you its rights in Outputs. The terms do not split this by free or paid plan.
Subject to your compliance with our Terms, we assign to you all of our right, title, and interest—if any—in Outputs.
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When Anthropic lets you evaluate the services for a limited time or with limited functionality, that evaluation use is personal and non-commercial only. The terms do not say this covers the regular Free plan.
Use of our Services for evaluation purposes are for your personal, non-commercial use only.
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The Commercial Terms cover API keys and other offerings that reference them. The customer owns its Outputs, and Anthropic assigns its rights in them.
As between the parties and to the extent permitted by applicable law, Anthropic agrees that Customer (a) retains all rights to its Inputs, and (b) owns its Outputs.
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Under the Commercial Terms, Anthropic defends customers against third-party IP claims over their paid use of the services or the Outputs from it. It excludes modified outputs, outputs combined with other content, and trademark claims, among others. The Consumer Terms have no such indemnity.
Customer’s paid use of the Services (which includes data Anthropic has used to train a model that is part of the Services) in accordance with these Terms or Outputs generated through such authorized use violates any third-party intellectual property right.
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On consumer plans Anthropic may train on your chats unless you opt out in settings. Under the Commercial Terms it may not train on Customer Content.
including training our models, unless you opt out of training through your account settings.
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Player-facing narrative, dialogue, or localization written with this tool is the kind of shipped content Steam's Content Survey asks about (Pre-Generated). Code help in your dev workflow is a separate case. This is Valve's rule, not a statement from the vendor.
Pre-Generated: Any kind of content that ships with your game and is consumed by players that is created with the help of AI tools during development.
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