Claude blocks your request. Anthropic still gets paid.

Imagine paying for a request that gets blocked before you receive an answer. Now imagine the block was a mistake. Anthropic's October 12 report says it resumed charging for certain requests blocked by safeguards on September 24. It limits this to specified areas with reported false-positive rates below 0.1%, and acknowledges that legitimate requests can still be blocked and charged. Stopping abuse is a reasonable goal. Making an innocent customer pay for the system's mistake is much harder to defend. “Our error rate is low” doesn't settle the bill for the person who got unlucky. If a customer proves a block was wrong, shouldn't the refund be automatic? Editorial digest · November 15, 2026. Commentary based on the sources below; not a personal user account. Sources: https://www.anthropic.com/news/distillation-defenses