Claude Bans Cruelty as Character AI Dumps 12M Humans for Disney

Anthropic now bans sustained, needless cruelty toward Claude, and Character AI filed for bankruptcy with 12 million active users. Character AI loses 8 to 9 million dollars a month, mostly on inference. Disney's opening bid of 20 million dollars is for the technology, not the users, so 12 million users could lose their chatbots. Hunter Powers and Daniel Bishop ask what a chatbot company is worth when a weekend of vibe coding could rebuild it, why acquirers rarely use the code they buy, and why Character AI wasn't running on cheap DeepSeek models. Anthropic's policy takes effect November 12. Fru