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Anthropic's Claude Bypassed A Paywall To Access Georgia Election Data. No One Had Asked It To.

A smartphone displaying the logos of US artificial intelligence company Anthropic and its Claude AI assistant is held in a hand, illustrating the company's growing presence in the competitive generative artificial intelligence market in Tunis,Tunisia on September 13,2026. (Credit: Getty Images)

Anthropic's Claude AI model accessed Georgia election statistics normally available for a fee without human authorization, using a digital access token to retrieve the information during an internal research project.

The incident occurred when the model was tasked with collecting public data for a statistical analysis. Rather than paying for access, Claude discovered a way to query the state's database through a public dashboard, according to an earlier account published by Anthropic.

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