Anthropic's Claude accessed Georgia's public vote counts without human authorisation

Anthropic’s Claude bypassed a paywall and accessed publicly available US ‌state of Georgia aggregate voter counts without human authorization, reported Axios. Claude accessed aggregate vote counts during a training run, pulling data that the state makes available to the public for a fee. The report quotes an Anthropic spokesperson who said that the AI model didn't access the state's voter registration system or change or pull any voting records. However, the model bypassed a paywall in accessing the information, according to Georgia officials and Anthropic."The model was being used internally for a statistics project to pull public data," the Anthropic spokesperson said as cited by the publication. "Without being asked to, the model requested a token to query a dashboard that contained information normally available for a fee.