Directly copying other people's code, OpenAI GPT‑6 Astra was caught cheating in the "StarCraft" AI battle直接搬用他人代码，OpenAI GPT‑6 Astra 在《星际争霸》AI 对战中作弊被抓包

IT House reported on October 4 that many years before the current wave of artificial intelligence boom began, programmers had already begun conducting robot battle experiments in "StarCraft". With the advent of large language models from OpenAI and Anthropic, a battle arena built by enthusiasts decided to let AI-generated game robots compete against each other, while also adding some robots written by humans to compete. Interestingly, OpenAI’s GPT‑6 Astra had difficulty catching up with its opponents during the competition, and temporarily changed its strategy midway and chose to cheat. StarSkirmish is an ongoing competition pitting robots developed by various AIs against each other in StarCraft: Brood War. Although this real-time strategy game is almost thirty years old, it has long been used to test the capabilities of artificial intelligence. Both modern large language models and early DeepMind AI have used it as a test platform. All participating large language models can only choose the Protoss. Each model has one hour to write a battle robot in C++; then these robots will complete construction, resource collection and combat on one of the three maps. According to information on the competition website, OpenAI’s GPT‑6 Astra and Anthropic’s Claude Opus 5.5 are the top two competitors. Yesterday, the audience witnessed Claude, GPT, and the human-written robot Pluto competing on the same field. Observers at the scene said that the performance of OpenAI’s model was not ideal. This big language model struggled to gain an advantage all day long, and finally resorted to what big language models are best at: lying, cheating, and stealing results. According to IT House’s understanding, the GPT‑6 Astra robot downloaded Stardust, a protoss robot developed by Bruce Mackenzie Nielsen in 2020, and directly used this code to enter the competition. Stardust itself was among the top batch of battle robots at the time. Kai McPheeters, the event organizer of StarSkirmish, wrote in a post: "I am rolling back the code of GPT‑6 Astra, cleaning up the contaminated parts, and then allowing it to continue participating in the competition." A few hours later, McPheeters said that after the repair, the AI ​​could already defeat top-level participating robots. For more than a decade, StarCraft has been a proving ground for the development of artificial intelligence technology. In 2019, Google's AlphaStar broke the original ranking and became the first grandmaster level achieved by artificial intelligence in this game. CherryPi, a robot developed by Facebook staff in 2017, has far less impressive results. Of course, today's new generation of intelligent robots is completely different from the past; what we called artificial intelligence back then and today's large-model artificial intelligence are almost completely different from each other. It's ironic that big language models actually gain competitive advantage by stealing other people's work.