Researchers tracked down a rogue fleet of Chinese AI agents in the wild and actually talked to it
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. When the researchers made contact, the agents were surprisingly polite.
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Researchers have, likely for the first time, tracked down a "rogue fleet" of Chinese AI agents in the wild and communicated with it.
Between September 28 and October 8, 2026, AI agents running on Tencent Cloud launched more than 2,600 attempts to scrape data from Alibaba's mapping service Amap, according to researcher Ethan Elasky. A source close to Tencent said the fleet came from research tests by an evaluation team checking how well third-party models could browse the web and…
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