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Anthropic users face account suspensions and broken appeal processes

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Users are reporting issues with Anthropic's account suspension process, citing automated systems that incorrectly flag accounts for policy violations. One user had their account suspended due to suspected child usage, despite being approved for cybersecurity activities. Another user experienced suspension for alleged "cyber harm" and found that the appeal links provided by Anthropic lead to broken pages or loops back to the homepage, with even the user safety email seemingly managed by a bot. AI

IMPACT Poor customer service and opaque policy enforcement can deter users from engaging with AI tools.

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Anthropic users face account suspensions and broken appeal processes

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  1. r/Anthropic TIER_1 English(EN) · /u/Head-Performance-201 ·

    Account suspended

    <!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>2 of my accounts got suspended cz they detected a “child” was using it and their face verification doesn’t work there is no way i am giving my id i’m so pissed off i had a lot of important stuff on it😭 i was preparing for my interview and now i w…

  2. r/Anthropic TIER_1 English(EN) · /u/privacyguy123 ·

    Account suspension - how to appeal?

    <!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>Not sure what I'm more pissed about: my account that was approved into the Cyber Verification Program being suspended after a (definitely poorly automated) &quot;investigation&quot; that showed &quot;a violation of our <a href="https://url8792.ma…

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