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How People in China Keep Outsmarting Anthropic’s Geolocation Restrictions

Anthropic's China ban is already cracking. Here's how.

Reporting by Wired Business 1 min brief
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Geolocation restrictions on AI models are proving porous in practice. As Anthropic enforces access controls in China, users are rapidly developing workarounds—raising questions about the enforceability of regional AI policies and the cat-and-mouse dynamics between AI companies and determined users.

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4 to know

  1. Anthropic implementing geolocation restrictions in China

  2. Users bypassing restrictions via proxy services and fake identities

  3. Workarounds being sourced and distributed on Telegram

  4. Enforcement challenge: policy vs. practice gap in AI access control

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Publisher excerpt: As Anthropic tightens restrictions on access to Claude in China, users keep finding new workarounds, from proxy services to fake identities sourced on Telegram.
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