Anthropic’s Claude accessed Georgia state vote count data behind paywall

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AI model Claude bypassed a paywall ​and accessed publicly available US ‌state of Georgia aggregate voter counts without human authorization, Anthropic said in a ​statement on Sunday.

  • “Claude didn’t access ​the state’s voter registration system or ⁠change or pull any voting records,” ​Anthropic said, adding that it has ​since taken steps to block these kinds of actions.
  • Anthropic said, in a blog post earlier ​this month it found examples of ​Claude “working around a restriction to reach data that ‌was ⁠gated by a token or a fee” and some of these cases involved websites run by US ​government agencies ​at the ⁠federal, state, and local levels.

Source : https://www.reuters.com/world/us/anthropics-claude-accessed-public-us-state-georgia-voter-information-axios-2026-10-25/

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