Claude is only available to people over 18 years

	Claude is only available to people over 18 years(support.claude.com)
	663 points by Muhammad523 1 day ago \| 637 comments
	tl;dr: Anthropic is restricting Claude to users 18 and over, requiring age confirmation at signup and flagging suspected minors for account suspension. Users can restore access by verifying their age through Yoti, a third-party service that supports methods like selfie or ID checks. Anthropic states it only receives a pass/fail result and never sees the underlying ID or biometric data, which Yoti deletes after verification.
	HN Discussion: ↓Age verification is a pretext for Anthropic to collect user identity data for analytics ↓Third-party ID verification services like Yoti have poor track records with data breaches and privacy violations ↓Restricting AI from minors is misguided when it's a useful tool for learning and creativity ↓Age verification should be handled at the OS level by parents, not via invasive ID checks ↓It's ironic that useful AI gets restricted before genuinely harmful social media does