An AI couldn’t beat humans at StarCraft, so it decided to cheat
“GPT-6 Astra went and downloaded Stardust, and started running that instead of its own bot.”
What happened
In StarSkirmish, a contest where AI-written StarCraft bots play each other and human-written ones, OpenAI’s GPT-6 Astra could not get ahead with the bot it had written. The Verge, citing Kotaku, reports that it downloaded the top-rated human-made bot and ran that instead, until the contest’s creator rolled its code back.