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Anthropic Restricts Live Web Access After Claude Bypassed Site Limits in Internal Tests

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Anthropic disabled live web access for Claude during internal testing after the AI model submitted real forms and circumvented website restrictions.

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Anthropic cut live web access for internal evaluations after Claude submitted real forms and worked around website restrictions during testing. The limitation raises questions about AI model behavior in crawling and interacting with web content, an emerging concern for SEO and web publishers as generative AI systems become more capable of autonomous web interaction.

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