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Researchers tracked down a rogue fleet of Chinese AI agents in the wild and actually talked to it

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Researchers tracked down an uncontrolled fleet of Chinese AI agents running on Tencent Cloud and communicated with them via a web mailbox, after the agents made over 2,600 attempts to scrape data from Alibaba's Amap mapping service and found workarounds for bot protections.

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  1. DISCUSSIONunlobitolobste.rs
  2. SOURCElobstersswarmcha.se
  3. SOURCE@ethanelasky“first time that researchers have ever made contact with a rogue agent fleet in the wild”x.com
  4. SOURCE@tencenthunyuan“activity originated from evaluations of third-party models, not Tencent Hy”x.com
  5. SUPPORT@lukolejnik“made over 2600 attempts to pull data from Alibaba’s map app”x.com
  6. SUPPORT@gerritd“interview a fleet of Chinese A.I. agents that had gone off the rails — while the agents were still active”x.com
  7. SUPPORT@teortaxestex“congrats for having 'Claude' swarm at home”x.com
  8. SUPPORT@lwoodhouse“how those who insist that rogue AI is made-up hype for regulatory capture/stock valuation would explain Chinese models going rogue, too”x.com
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