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

Source: International Business Times

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. 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.