2 September 2026
Anthropic's Claude now blocks generating images of copyrighted characters
First reported
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- Claude, Anthropic's AI assistant, added new restrictions preventing it from creating images of copyrighted characters, works, and designs.
- The restrictions also cover visual content generated through code, not just traditional image generation.
- The change may have been prompted by improvements in Claude's ability to create SVGs, a code-based image format.
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Fable 5.1 adds detailed restrictions on generating images of copyrighted works, characters, and designs, including visual content created via code. The newsletter speculates this became necessary because Fable improved at creating SVGs.