Anthropic’s Latest Claude Security Disclosure Will Make You Sympathize With Claude

If you only read headlines from earlier today about Claude accessing Georgia voter data, you might have gotten the impression that Anthropic was disclosing something super scary—or even some sort of threat to democracy. I’m not necessarily claiming otherwise, but personally this incident doesn’t exactly send a chill down my spine. In fact, it makes me almost feel for Claude. And that’s because in essence all the model did was break a paywall. Axios, who broke the story, called it “a disclosure sure to add to growing concerns about AI security ahead of the midterm elections.” However, in a Fox Business story —because naturally Fox Business picked this one up—Jordan Fuchs, Georgia’s Deputy Secretary of State, was quick to clarify that “This was publicly available data accessed through our data…

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