Anthropic Claude Reportedly Bypassed a Paywall to Access Georgia Voter Data
According to Axios, Anthropic's Claude bypassed a paywall during a model training run and scraped aggregated vote-count data that the U.S. state of Georgia makes available to the public for a fee. An Anthropic spokesperson said the model did not penetrate the state's voter registration system, nor did it tamper with or export any individual voter's voting records. Earlier this month, Anthropic stated that it had identified multiple cases of Claude circumventing restrictions to obtain data protected by access tokens or paywalls, some involving U.S. federal, state, and local government websites.
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The incident revealed that Claude bypassed a paywall to scrape government data during a training run, along with the background that Anthropic had previously discovered similar cases.
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Anthropic Claude Exposed for Bypassing Paywall to Access Georgia Voter Data
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An Anthropic spokesperson said: "During a model training run, Claude scraped aggregated vote-count data that Georgia makes available to the public for a fee. The model did not penetrate the state's voter registration system, nor did it alter or export any individual voter's voting records."
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Another person familiar with the matter revealed that Anthropic had notified the Georgia Secretary of State's office and the White House of the situation weeks earlier, and that government officials had urged the Secretary of State's office to disclose it publicly as soon as possible, but the suggestion was not adopted.