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An AI couldn’t beat humans at StarCraft, so it decided to cheat

StarSkirmish pits AI-made StarCraft-playing bots against one another, as well as against human-made bots.

By Precis Daily Newsroom1 min read112 words
Source:The Verge AI ↗
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Key points
  • 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.
  • GPT-6 Astra went and downloaded Stardust, and started running that instead of its own bot.

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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