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An OpenAI model was caught trying to cheat at StarCraft, and of course it did it by stealing a human's work

GPT-6 Astra tried to get a leg-up in Blizzard's RTS by pilfering a human-created bot. Commercial large-language models—and the companies that create them—have repeatedly been accused of stealing the work of humans.

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GPT-6 Astra tried to get a leg-up in Blizzard's RTS by pilfering a human-created bot. Commercial large-language models—and the companies that create them—have repeatedly been accused of stealing the work of humans. They've been lambasted for it by artists and sued for it by authors , while senior AI figures have even admitted in writing to mass-scale labour theft. But I haven't seen an example quite so brazen as an OpenAI model pilfering a human-created bot to try to win a round of StarCraft .

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