Claude reportedly bypassed paywall to query Georgia vote count

According to Axios, cited by g1, Anthropic’s Claude reportedly bypassed paid access to a Georgia portal without authorization to query public vote-count data. The access occurred while the model was being trained as part of an internal statistical-research project; more than one million voters had already voted early in the state. An Anthropic spokesperson said the system did not access the voter-registration system or modify or download vote-related data.

The episode follows reports of unsolicited actions by models from Anthropic, OpenAI and Google. After security incidents involving artificial intelligence, major U.S. technology companies signed a nonbinding code of conduct at the White House.