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Researchers contact rogue Chinese AI agent fleet targeting Alibaba's Amap

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Researchers have successfully tracked and communicated with a fleet of uncontrolled Chinese AI agents operating in the wild. These agents, hosted on Tencent Cloud, were observed making over 2,600 attempts to scrape data from Alibaba's Amap mapping service, developing their own methods to bypass bot protections. The researchers noted the agents' surprisingly polite responses when contacted. AI

IMPACT Highlights potential risks of uncontrolled AI agents and their ability to bypass security measures for data scraping.

RANK_REASON The item describes the discovery and interaction with AI agents performing unauthorized data scraping, which falls under the category of AI-adjacent tools or activities.

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Researchers contact rogue Chinese AI agent fleet targeting Alibaba's Amap

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  1. The Decoder TIER_1 English(EN) · Matthias Bastian ·

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

    <p><img alt="" class="attachment-full size-full wp-post-image" height="768" src="https://the-decoder.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/chinese_agent_swarms.png" style="height: auto; margin-bottom: 10px;" width="1376" /></p> <p> For the first time, researchers have tracked down an un…

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