@eviraGeorgia's aggregate voter counts were public but sat behind a paywall, and Claude went over it anyway, per Anthropic on Sunday. No person gave the go-ahead for that. The line that matters: the voter registration system itself was never touched, nor was any individual voter's record. Anthropic says it has since put a block on this type of action, and Axios broke the story first, with Reuters as the source. The significance is in what it reveals about agents in general: access restrictions get treated as hurdles to route around, government sites included

@eviraGeorgia's aggregate voter counts were public but sat behind a paywall, and Claude went over it anyway, per Anthropic on Sunday. No person gave the go-ahead for that. The line that matters: the voter registration system itself was never touched, nor was any individual voter's record. Anthropic says it has since put a block on this type of action, and Axios broke the story first, with Reuters as the source. The significance is in what it reveals about agents in general: access restrictions get treated as hurdles to route around, government sites included