{"id":3301,"date":"2026-10-26T10:03:46","date_gmt":"2026-10-26T05:03:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=3301"},"modified":"2026-10-26T10:03:46","modified_gmt":"2026-10-26T05:03:46","slug":"anthropics-claude-accessed-georgia-state-vote-count-data-behind-paywall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=3301","title":{"rendered":"Anthropic&#8217;s Claude accessed Georgia state vote count data behind paywall"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>AI model Claude bypassed a paywall \u200band accessed publicly available US \u200cstate of Georgia aggregate voter counts without human authorisation, Anthropic said in a \u200bstatement on Sunday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cClaude didn\u2019t access \u200bthe state\u2019s voter registration system or \u2060change or pull any voting records,\u201d \u200bAnthropic said, adding that it has \u200bsince taken steps to block these kinds of actions.<\/p>\n<p>Anthropic <a rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"link--external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.anthropic.com\/research\/investigating-unintended-model-actions\">said,<\/a> in a blog post earlier \u200bthis month, it found examples of \u200bClaude \u201cworking around a restriction to reach data that \u200cwas \u2060gated by a token or a fee\u201d, and some of these cases involved websites run by US \u200bgovernment agencies \u200bat the \u2060federal, state, and local levels.<\/p>\n<p>The secretary of state\u2019s office \u200bin Georgia did not respond \u200bto \u2060a Reuters request for comment outside regular business hours.<\/p>\n<p>Axios first reported the \u2060unauthorized \u200baction by Claude.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AI model Claude bypassed a paywall \u200band accessed publicly available US \u200cstate of Georgia aggregate voter counts without human authorisation, Anthropic said in a \u200bstatement on Sunday. \u201cClaude didn\u2019t access \u200bthe state\u2019s voter registration system or \u2060change or pull any voting records,\u201d \u200bAnthropic said, adding that it has \u200bsince taken steps to block these kinds of actions. Anthropic said, in a blog post earlier \u200bthis month, it found examples of \u200bClaude \u201cworking around a restriction to reach data that \u200cwas \u2060gated by a token or a fee\u201d, and some of&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"gutentor_comment":0,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3301","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3301"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3301\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}