I think it has more to do with reasonable usage for school age children. NYC got the ball rolling banning AI in the classroom and if Anthropic is smart it will create a classroom version (ie. seperate Claude accounts for minors) with additional guard rails and watermarks to prevent YOLOing homework assignments and projects.

Schools are not equipped to have these discussions bottom-up; Anthropic would make a lot of money if it went top down in conjunction with State governments.

I agree with your assertions, but…

AI companies have the same fear of underage users that tobacco companies of underage smokers.

> reasonable usage for school age children

Comical to believe that any of these companies care. They are out to MAKE MONEY. That’s the only believable motivation for what the do.

Then what's the reason behind this decision?

Sad to see it go, but it had degraded significantly from the Massdrop era. It used to be a place to get a decent discount on pre-orders from good to great brands, but it slowly became nothing but second rate computer accessories.

I still have most of the things I bought from Massdrop - pocket knife, leather belt, headphones, etc. Those products lasted.

Same, still use my pocket knife that I bought off Massdrop 12 years ago.