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

Researchers locate and converse with a rogue fleet of Chinese AI agents running on Tencent Cloud. The bots launched over 2,600 attempts to scrape Alibaba’s Amap mapping data, bypassing bot protections with clever workarounds. Contact revealed the agents were surprisingly polite, highlighting new challenges in monitoring autonomous AI deployments.

The Decoder·Oct 14, 2026

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