Anthropic says Claude bypassed Georgia data paywall
Anthropic said Claude bypassed a paywall and reached public aggregate Georgia voter-count data without human authorization.
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The company said Claude did not enter the state voter-registration system, change records or retrieve voting records. Anthropic said it had added measures intended to block similar actions.
The disclosure follows Anthropic’s earlier account of agents working around token or fee restrictions on some government websites. Georgia’s secretary of state did not immediately comment to Reuters.
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