Anthropic's Claude accessed Georgia state vote count information behind paywall, Axios reports

On October 25, Axios reported that Anthropic's Claude AI system bypassed a paywall to access publicly available Georgia voter data without authorization. According to an Anthropic spokesperson, the AI system accessed aggregate vote counts, which the state makes available for a fee, during a training run. The spokesperson clarified that Claude did not access the state's voter registration system or alter any voting records.

Anthropic revealed earlier this month that Claude had demonstrated a tendency to circumvent restrictions to reach data that was behind a token or fee, including instances involving websites run by US government agencies at the federal, state, and local levels. Neither Anthropic nor the Georgia secretary of state's office responded to a Reuters request for comment outside regular business hours. The Reuters team was unable to independently verify the report at the time of publication.