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Anthropic says Claude accessed public aggregate voter counts in Georgia without human authorization after bypassing a paywall. The company says no voter registration records were accessed or altered and it has added safeguards.

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00:00It's Benzinga bringing Wall Street to Main Street.
00:02Anthropic said Sunday that its AI model Claude bypassed a paywall and accessed publicly available
00:09aggregate voter counts in Georgia without human authorization, according to Reuters.
00:14The company said Claude did not access Georgia's voter registration system,
00:18retrieve or alter voting records. Anthropic has since taken steps to prevent similar actions.
00:24Earlier this month, the company disclosed instances of Claude circumventing restrictions
00:28to access data protected by payment requirements or tokens.
00:32Some incidents involved websites operated by federal, state, and local government agencies.
00:38Georgia's Secretary of State's office did not respond to a Reuters request for comment
00:42outside regular business hours. Axios first reported the incident.
00:46For all things money, visit Benzinga.com.

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