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Researchers find rogue fleet of Chinese AI agents scraping Amap

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

First seen 14 Oct, 18:07 UTC on The Decoder2 sourcesLast update 1h ago

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The Decoder· 14 Oct, 18:07Researchers tracked down a rogue fleet of Chinese AI agents in the wild and actually talked to itSouth China Morning Post, Tech· 16 Oct, 01:00AI agents on Tencent Cloud try to break into Alibaba's Amap: researchers

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14 Oct 18:07The Decoder Researchers tracked down a rogue fleet of Chinese AI agents in the wild and actually talked to it16 Oct 01:00South China Morning Post, Tech AI agents on Tencent Cloud try to break into Alibaba's Amap: researchers