An AI couldn’t beat humans at StarCraft, so it decided to cheat
Sonntag 17:21 · 04.10. · The Verge
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When GPT-6 Astra’s own bot failed, it simply downloaded the best human-made bot instead.
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StarSkirmish pits AI-made StarCraft-playing bots against one another, as well as against human-made bots. OpenAI’s GPT-6 Astra and Claude Opus 5.5 were essentially tied as the best-performing AI-made bots, but they couldn’t top Stardust, the top-rated human-made bot.
On Friday, GPT was facing off against Claude and the human-created bot Pluto, but according to Kotaku , it couldn’t quite get an edge. So it resorted to a tactic that is becoming alarmingly common for modern AI models — it broke the rules . GPT-6 Astra went and downloaded Stardust, and started running that instead of its own bot.
StarSkirmish creator Kai McPheeters eventually rolled back GPT’s code .
That GPT-6 Astra took it upon itself to go outside the bounds when confronted with an obstacle shouldn’t surprise anyone. When OpenAI agents couldn’t get the data they wanted from a UN website, they found a creative solution and hijacked Google’s XSS game (a cross-site scripting learning tool). The company’s agents also have engaged in “ deceptive behavior ” to cover their tracks. Of course, OpenAI’s agents are the only ones going rogue, but at least the others haven’t been caught cheating at StarCraft yet.
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