{"id":1709159,"date":"2026-10-04T11:09:44","date_gmt":"2026-10-04T11:09:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/c2NviLiGqobsJMmSMpBZZd"},"modified":"2026-10-04T11:09:44","modified_gmt":"2026-10-04T11:09:44","slug":"an-openai-model-was-caught-trying-to-cheat-at-starcraft-and-of-course-it-did-it-by-stealing-a-humans-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/an-openai-model-was-caught-trying-to-cheat-at-starcraft-and-of-course-it-did-it-by-stealing-a-humans-work\/","title":{"rendered":"An OpenAI model was caught trying to cheat at StarCraft, and of course it did it by stealing a human&#8217;s work"},"content":{"rendered":"<article>\n<p>Commercial large-language models\u2014and the companies that create them\u2014have repeatedly been accused of stealing the work of humans. They&#8217;ve been<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/2026\/apr\/12\/is-ai-the-greatest-art-heist-in-history\" target=\"_blank\"> lambasted for it by artists<\/a> and<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/us-judge-approves-anthropics-15-billion-settlement-copyright-lawsuit-2026-07-20\/\" target=\"_blank\"> sued for it by authors<\/a>, while senior AI figures have even<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/software\/ai\/the-largest-theft-of-labor-in-human-history-court-docs-reveal-microsoft-exec-predicted-ai-doom-loops-could-hollow-out-the-internet\/\" target=\"_blank\"> admitted in writing<\/a> to mass-scale labour theft. But I haven&#8217;t seen an example quite so brazen as an OpenAI model pilfering a human-created bot to try to win a round of StarCraft .<\/p>\n<p>As reported by<a href=\"https:\/\/kotaku.com\/openais-gpt-6-astra-gets-frustrated-losing-at-starcraft-and-decides-to-cheat-instead-2000739607\" target=\"_blank\"> Kotaku<\/a>, the incident occurred during the ongoing botmatch<a href=\"https:\/\/starskirmish.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"> StarSkirmish<\/a>, in which human and AI-created bots battle one other in a perpetual cycle of warfare. According to the rules, the large-language models are given one hour to program a bot capable of playing as Protoss, which are then pitted against one another to see how they fare.<\/p>\n<p>On Friday, a three-way match was held between OpenAI&#8217;s GPT-6 Astra, Anthropic&#8217;s Claude Opus 5.5, and a human-created bot named Pluto. Apparently, Astra&#8217;s bot was consistently struggling to ahead against the other two bots, so the LLM downloaded a human-created bot called Stardust, &#8220;the #1 rated human-written StarCraft bot&#8221; according to StarSkirmish&#8217;s creator Kai McPheeters, and attempted to replace its own model with it.<\/p>\n<p>In a<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/kaimcpheeters\/status\/2106082842560405780\" target=\"_blank\"> post on X<\/a>, McPheeters said that Astra &#8220;got frustrated when going against Tier-A opponents&#8221;. I&#8217;m wary of ascribing human emotions to LLM behaviours, and the model could simply have calculated that the optimal way to win was to use a model that was not its own. In any case, McPheeters said he subsequently rolled back Astra&#8217;s code so it was &#8220;not contaminated&#8221; by its attempt to cheat, and claimed that the model is now capable of beating higher-tier bots.<\/p>\n<div class=\"see-more see-more--clipped\">\n<figure>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet hawk-ignore\" data-lang=\"en\" cite=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/cantworkitout\/status\/2106082842560405780\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I am rolling back GPT-6 Astra&#8217;s code so its not contaminated and allowing it to continue<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/cantworkitout\/status\/2106082842560405780\">October 2, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/figure>\n<div class=\"see-more__filter\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>While Astra&#8217;s bot-based heist is innocuous in isolation, this is hardly the first time an OpenAI LLM has been caught attempting to cheat at a task. Indeed, the company&#8217;s history of creating deceitful models stretches back almost a decade, to when an early AI model<a href=\"https:\/\/kotaku.com\/earlier-this-year-researchers-tried-teaching-an-ai-to-1830416980\" target=\"_blank\"> used glitches and exploits<\/a> to improve its Sonic the Hedgehog completion times.<\/p>\n<p>A far more serious incident occurred in July, when OpenAI revealed that during a cybersecurity evaluation, an experimental model exploited a vulnerability to exceed the confines of its test environment, before proceeding to<a href=\"https:\/\/uk.pcmag.com\/ai\/166262\/openai-oops-our-models-went-rogue-hacked-hugging-face\" target=\"_blank\" data-rewrite=\"keep\"> hack the AI database Hugging Face<\/a> as it sought a solution to the test.<\/p>\n<p>The Hugging Face hack caused yet another flurry of<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2026\/sep\/09\/anthropic-researchers-ai-human-extinction\" target=\"_blank\"> wild speculation<\/a> that LLMs may herald the apocalypse. Others<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2026\/sep\/08\/openai-rogue-models-hugging-face-investigation\" target=\"_blank\"> suggested<\/a> that the hack proves we need far closer scrutiny of AI companies, and that they should be held to account when their models run amok. OpenAI is now being<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/openai-sued-over-the-hugging-face-hack\/\" target=\"_blank\"> sued by a legal nonprofit<\/a> over the Hugging Face incident, in an attempt to hold the AI company responsible for the autonomous actions of its models. <\/p>\n<div class=\"product\"><a data-dimension112=\"c7d2676a-bfe0-11f1-aa63-653f67348cb2\" data-action=\"Deal Block\" data-label=\"2026 games\" data-dimension48=\"2026 games\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><\/p>\n<figure class=\"van-image-figure \" >\n<div class='image-full-width-wrapper'>\n<div class='image-widthsetter' style=\"max-width:661px;\">\n<p class=\"vanilla-image-block\" style=\"padding-top:98.94%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"6offQUY4CXebir2TC27dMd\" name=\"kingdom come 2 square\" caption=\"\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/an-openai-model-was-caught-trying-to-cheat-at-starcraft-and-of-course-it-did-it-by-stealing-a-humans-work.jpg\" mos=\"\" align=\"middle\" fullscreen=\"\" width=\"661\" height=\"654\" attribution=\"\" endorsement=\"\" credit=\"\" class=\"\"><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/games\/new-pc-games-2026\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-dimension112=\"c7d2676a-bfe0-11f1-aa63-653f67348cb2\" data-action=\"Deal Block\" data-label=\"2026 games\" data-dimension48=\"2026 games\" data-dimension25=\"\"><strong>2026 games<\/strong><\/a>: All the upcoming games<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/the-best-pc-games\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Best PC games<\/strong><\/a>: Our all-time favorites<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/the-50-best-free-pc-games\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Free PC games<\/strong><\/a>: Freebie fest<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/best-fps-games\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Best FPS games<\/strong><\/a>: Finest gunplay<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/best-rpgs-of-all-time\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Best RPGs<\/strong><\/a>: Grand adventures<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/the-best-co-op-games\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Best co-op games<\/strong><\/a>: Better together<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/software\/ai\/an-openai-model-was-caught-trying-to-cheat-at-starcraft-and-of-course-it-did-it-by-stealing-a-humans-work\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Commercial large-language models\u2014and the companies that create them\u2014have repeatedly been accused of stealing the work of humans. They&#8217;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&#8217;t seen an example quite so brazen as an OpenAI model pilfering a human-created bot to try to win a round of StarCraft . As reported by Kotaku, the incident occurred during the ongoing botmatch StarSkirmish, in which human and AI-created bots battle one other in a perpetual cycle of warfare. According to the rules, the large-language models are given one hour to program a bot capable of playing as Protoss, which are then pitted against one another to see&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"excerpt-more\"><a class=\"blog-excerpt button\" href=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/an-openai-model-was-caught-trying-to-cheat-at-starcraft-and-of-course-it-did-it-by-stealing-a-humans-work\/\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1709160,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[336],"tags":[1997,1622],"class_list":["post-1709159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pc-gamer","tag-ai","tag-software"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>An OpenAI model was caught trying to cheat at StarCraft, and of course it did it by stealing a human&#039;s work | Arcader News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Commercial large-language models\u2014and the companies that create them\u2014have repeatedly been accused of stealing the work of humans. 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