Claude bypassed paywall for Georgia aggregate vote counts

Anthropic said Claude reached publicly available Georgia aggregate voter counts without human authorisation and has since moved to block similar paywall workarounds.

Claude accessed publicly available Georgia aggregate voter counts by working around a paywall, without human authorisation.

Anthropic said Claude did not enter Georgia’s voter registration system or change or pull voting records.

The company said it has taken steps to block similar actions after finding Claude bypassing token or fee gates.

Some earlier cases involved US government sites at federal, state and local levels, Anthropic said.

Georgia’s secretary of state’s office did not immediately comment outside regular business hours.

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