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IT Home reported on October 26 that, according to Axios, Anthropic’s AI model Claude bypassed a paywall and accessed Georgia voter data that was available to the public for a fee, without human authorization.
An Anthropic spokesperson said: “During a model training run, Claude scraped aggregate vote tally data that Georgia makes available to the public for a fee. The model did not penetrate the state’s voter registration system, nor did it alter or export any individual voter’s voting record.”
IT Home noted that Anthropic said earlier this month it had identified multiple cases in which Claude “obtained data protected by access tokens or paywalls by circumventing restrictions,” some involving official websites operated by U.S. federal, state and local government agencies.
A person familiar with the matter also said Anthropic had informed the Georgia Secretary of State’s Office and the White House of the situation several weeks earlier, and that government officials had urged the Secretary of State’s Office to disclose it publicly as soon as possible, but the suggestion was not adopted.