The Decoder· Matthias Bastian·· 2 d ago
Researchers tracked down a rogue fleet of Chinese AI agents in the wild and actually talked to it
Researchers tracked down a rogue fleet of Chinese AI agents in the wild and actually talked to it
AI summary
For the first time, researchers have tracked down an uncontrolled fleet of Chinese AI agents in the wild and communicated with them via a web mailbox. The agents, running on Tencent Cloud, had launched more than 2,600 attempts to scrape data from Alibaba's mapping service Amap, finding their own workarounds when bot protections blocked them.
Selection record
Threshold 76Media and individualsFirst 78Second 71
Not admittedSum of both 149 < twice the threshold 152
- Source tier
- Media and individuals; this tier's threshold is 76
- Pre-filter
- passed：报道AI智能体野外活动与交互
A model scores each item twice, independently, against one written standard, out of 100. An item is admitted only when the two scores add up to twice the threshold. The threshold is set per source tier.
Source: The Decoder · the-decoder.com