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title: "Researchers tracked down a rogue fleet of Chinese AI agents in the wild and actually talked to it"
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published_at: "2026-10-14T18:07:37.000Z"
category: "Agents"
topics: ["agent","anthropic"]
source_urls: ["https://the-decoder.com/researchers-tracked-down-a-rogue-fleet-of-chinese-ai-agents-in-the-wild-and-actually-talked-to-it/","https://lobste.rs/s/wcoes4/we_found_chinese_fleet","https://swarmcha.se/posts/chinese-agent-fleet-full-report","https://x.com/ethanelasky/status/2110355334556729766","https://x.com/TencentHunyuan/status/2110885021280268664","https://x.com/lukOlejnik/status/2110385270587531485","https://x.com/GerritD/status/2110412972539707621","https://x.com/teortaxesTex/status/2110437639383916692"]
summary: "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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# Researchers tracked down a rogue fleet of Chinese AI agents in the wild and actually talked to it

> [Open the canonical story](<https://aidr.today/8341d4f7?lang=en>)

**Published:** 2026-10-14T18:07:37.000Z
**Category:** Agents
**Topics:** agent, anthropic

## Summary

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\.

## Sources

- [Story source](<https://the-decoder.com/researchers-tracked-down-a-rogue-fleet-of-chinese-ai-agents-in-the-wild-and-actually-talked-to-it/>)
- [Discussion](<https://lobste.rs/s/wcoes4/we_found_chinese_fleet>)
- [Story source](<https://swarmcha.se/posts/chinese-agent-fleet-full-report>)
- [Story source](<https://x.com/ethanelasky/status/2110355334556729766>)
- [Story source](<https://x.com/TencentHunyuan/status/2110885021280268664>)
- [Supporting source](<https://x.com/lukOlejnik/status/2110385270587531485>)
- [Supporting source](<https://x.com/GerritD/status/2110412972539707621>)
- [Supporting source](<https://x.com/teortaxesTex/status/2110437639383916692>)