When Claude chooses to end a conversation, the user will no longer be able to send new messages in that conversation. However, this will not affect other conversations on their account, and they will be able to start a new chat immediately. To address the potential loss of important long-running conversations, users will still be able to edit and retry previous messages to create new branches of ended conversations.
Anthropic has intentionally not made the “end chat” tool robust. The feature is designed such that it is somewhat trivial to continue querying Claude after it has ended a conversation, using existing features users are familiar with.
The release from Anthropic doesn’t read as a serious attempt to preserve the welfare of their current models. Rather, it’s more of an experiment they may iterate more on in the future.
One piece of potential context from Anthropic’s statement:
Anthropic has intentionally not made the “end chat” tool robust. The feature is designed such that it is somewhat trivial to continue querying Claude after it has ended a conversation, using existing features users are familiar with.
The release from Anthropic doesn’t read as a serious attempt to preserve the welfare of their current models. Rather, it’s more of an experiment they may iterate more on in the future.