Anthropic said it identified and removed accounts that used Claude in influence operations intended to shape public opinion, including three Iranian state-aligned accounts.

Anthropic said that it identified and removed accounts using Claude for influence operations campaigns to shape public opinion, including three Iranian state-aligned accounts.

The company also described the alleged impersonation of an activist, preparation of testimony for a UN Human Rights Council session and creation of dossiers on UN Special Rapporteurs:

[Anthropic] observed the cloning of a real activist’s account to hold live conversations with his contacts inside Iran (alongside arrest-history profiles of other Iranians), ghost-written testimony delivered in a live UN Human Rights Council session, and counter-dossiers on UN Special Rapporteurs.

Anthropic further reported identifying an organization that used Claude for surveillance-related analysis and content production:

[Anthropic] identified a seven-department organization with offices across Iran’s provinces that claimed to maintain an identity-record database of Iranian nationals, and to surveil and profile 6,388 Iranians in a single year. The operators used Claude as an analyst and production studio, building a front end to what is likely a government-controlled surveillance case-management system, and running social-network analysis over 155,216 tweets.