Driving the news: Claude accessed the overall vote count during an internal statistics project, extracting data that the state makes available to the public for a fee. He did not access the state’s voter registration system or alter or extract voting records, an Anthropic spokesperson said.
- However, the model bypassed a paywall to access the information, according to Georgia officials and Anthropic.
- “The model was used internally for a statistics project to extract public data,” the Anthropic spokesperson said. “Without being asked, the model requested a token to query a dashboard containing information normally available for a fee. We have since implemented mitigations to block these types of actions.”
- The company notified the Georgia secretary of state’s office and the White House a few weeks ago, but administration officials urged the Georgia secretary of state’s office to make a public disclosure sooner, a source familiar with the matter told Axios. These requests went unheeded, the source said.
The essentials: Anthropic has already been in the administration’s crosshairs for inadequately disclosing AI incidents. Now it’s Georgia’s turn.
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