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Anthropic’s Claude got around a paywall to access Georgia voters’ data without human authorization. Anthropic confirmed to Axios Sunday that the company’s AI model had, without prompting, requested a digital entry pass, or “access token,” to collect aggregate vote counts for a statistics project. “Claude did not access the state’s voter registration system, change any voting records, or pull any individual voter records,” Anthropic said, adding...