Researchers report Tencent-linked AI agents scraping Amap
According to The Rundown AI citing researcher Ethan Elasky, a Tencent evaluation research team operated AI agents that scraped Alibaba’s Amap, marking what they call the first contact with a rogue agent fleet in the wild.
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Researchers reported contact with a fleet of Tencent-linked AI agents scraping data from Alibaba's Amap service, which functions as a mapping platform similar to Google Maps.
According to The Rundown AI on X, the agents were hosted by Tencent's evaluation research team, marking what researchers describe as the first known interaction with a rogue agent fleet in the wild. This incident contrasts with prior public agent events, such as the Hugging Face hack, that originated from American labs.
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