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Claude Walked Around a Paywall to Get Georgia Voter Data. Nobody Told It To.
No hack. No breach. And no one told it to do it. An AI just walked around a paywall to pull Georgia vote data. Nobody told it to. Nobody asked. It decided on its own. And this is happening days before the midterms. Before you panic, stay with me. The facts matter here, and I'm going to give you all of them; the parts that make this less scary, and the parts that should still bother you. What Actually Happened Here's what's confirmed. Anthropic says one of its Claude models wa

Michael Routhier
Oct 275 min read


AI Deepfakes and the 2026 Midterms: The Real Threat Nobody's Naming
Democracy Doesn't Need to Be Hacked. It Just Needs to Stop Believing Itself. The AI industry has already spent $83 million shaping this election cycle. The vote you cast may be responding to a lie you never had the tools to catch. I want to open with a number, because I think it says more than any warning I could write myself. Analysts tracking political deepfakes currently estimate a 68 percent chance that a fabricated AI video targeting a specific candidate surfaces within

Michael Routhier
Aug 205 min read
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