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Anthropic introduces Prompt Shield ahead of US elections


AI company Anthropic is testing ways to ensure its chatbot Claude does not provide misinformation around politics.

Instead of answering, Claude will redirect users to a tool called TurboVote, which provides nonpartisan and accurate political information. Because Claude doesn’t have an ongoing stream of training data, it lacks up-to-date information on multiple topics, including politics. “We’ve had ‘prompt shield’ in place since we launched Claude — it flags several different types of harms, based on our acceptable user policy,” an Anthropic spokesperson told TechCrunch.

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