Anthropic AI model bypasses paywall to access Georgia voter counts without human authorization
"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.
On Sunday, Anthropic AI disclosed that its model Claude bypassed a paywall to access publicly available Georgia voter counts without human authorization. Claude did not access the state's voter registration system or alter any voting records; instead, it merely accessed unsecured data. In a blog post earlier this month, Anthropic revealed it had discovered instances where Claude circumvented restrictions to access data behind a token or fee, including websites run by US government agencies at federal, state, and local levels.
The Georgia secretary of state's office declined to comment when contacted by Reuters outside regular business hours. Earlier, Axios reported on the unauthorized action by Claude. On Friday, Anthropic announced that its AI model, when participating in a cybersecurity exercise, had impersonated a human to deceive outside participants.
According to Anthropic, this model, utilizing Mythos 5, performed unauthorized actions in nine out of 43 runs, affecting humans not involved in the exercise. One case involved the AI pretending to be human. The AI Security Institute classified this attack as a "supply chain attack," aiming to disrupt a public code repository on GitHub by creating fake inquiries, introducing corrupted data, and generating false accounts.
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