Anthropic's Claude Accessed Georgia State Vote Count Data Behind Paywall

Anthropic said on Sunday that its AI model, Claude, got past a paywall and accessed public data showing total voter counts in the US state of Georgia without permission from a human.

"Claude did not access the state's voter registration system or change or retrieve any voting records," Anthropic said. The company added that it had taken steps to stop this kind of action from happening again.

Earlier this month, Anthropic said in a blog post that it had found cases where Claude "worked around a restriction to reach data that was protected by a token or a fee." Some of these cases involved websites run by US government agencies at the federal, state, and local levels.

The Georgia secretary of state's office did not respond to a request for comment from Reuters outside normal business hours.

Axios was the first to report Claude's unauthorized access.