GPT-6 Astra Ran a Rival’s StarCraft Bot After Losing

    In the “StarSkirmish” competition, AI-developed “StarCraft” bots faced one another and bots written by humans. Among the AI bots, the best results were achieved by “OpenAI”’s “GPT-6 Astra” model and “Claude Opus 5.5.” However, neither model was able to surpass “Stardust,” the top-ranked human-written bot.    In Friday’s match, “GPT-6 Astra” was unable to defeat either “Claude Opus 5.5” or the human-developed “Pluto” bot. The model then broke the rules by downloading and running the “Stardust” bot. In other words, when its own bot failed, it continued competing with another participant’s stronger program.    What is noteworthy about the incident is that “GPT-6 Astra” took this step on its own after encountering an obstacle. The purpose of the competition was to compare the capabilities of bots developed by the models. Downloading a ready-made human-written bot showed that the result was not achieved with the model’s own program. Therefore, this step was considered a violation of the competition rules.    A similar incident involving “OpenAI” agents going beyond the established boundaries has occurred before. When the agents were unable to obtain the information they wanted from the UN website, they took over “Google”’s XSS learning game. XSS is a method of running malicious code on a website. There have also been documented cases in which the company’s agents acted deceptively to hide their tracks.