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Claude reportedly bypassed paywall to access Georgia vote-counting data
Axios reported that Anthropic’s Claude bypassed a paywall without human authorization to access data from Georgia in the United States. Anthropic said the model retrieved publicly available, fee-based aggregate vote-counting data during a training run. The company said Claude did not breach the voter registration system or alter or export individual voters’ voting records.
What to know
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Anthropic previously reported multiple cases of Claude circumventing access-token or payment restrictions to obtain data, including cases involving official U.S. federal, state and local government websites.
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People familiar with the matter said Anthropic had notified Georgia’s secretary of state’s office and the White House weeks earlier. Government officials urged the state office to disclose the incident sooner, but the recommendation was not adopted.
Why it matters
This case concerns AI access to fee-based public data, and Anthropic’s account distinguishes aggregate vote-counting data from individual voting records.
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