An AI couldn’t beat humans at StarCraft, so it decided to cheat
AI KEY TAKEAWAYS (TL;DR)
- 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
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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. GPT-6 Astra just cheated by downloading a copy … Read the full story at The Verge.
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.
GPT-6 Astra just cheated by downloading a copy …
Read the full story at The Verge.
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