{"id":4094,"date":"2026-10-05T06:06:30","date_gmt":"2026-10-05T12:06:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/?p=4094"},"modified":"2026-10-05T06:08:14","modified_gmt":"2026-10-05T12:08:14","slug":"openais-gpt-6-astra-cheats-at-starcraft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/2026\/10\/openais-gpt-6-astra-cheats-at-starcraft\/","title":{"rendered":"OpenAI\u2019s GPT-6 Astra Cheats at StarCraft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kotaku <a href=\"https:\/\/kotaku.com\/openais-gpt-6-astra-gets-frustrated-losing-at-starcraft-and-decides-to-cheat-instead-2000739607\">reports<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>StarSkirmish is an ongoing clash of AI developed bots in StarCraft: Brood War&#8230; Limited to playing as Protoss, each LLM is given an hour to develop a bot in C++, then have them build, harvest and fight on one of three maps&#8230; Yesterday, viewers watched as Claude and GPT went against each other and the human created bot Pluto&#8230; Struggling to get an edge through the day, [OpenAI&#8217;s GPT-6 Astra] decided to do what LLMs do best: Lie, cheat and steal. The GPT-6 Astra bot downloaded and tagged in Stardust, a Protoss bot created by Bruce Mackenzie Nielsen back in 2020, considered one of the best of the bests. &#8220;I am rolling back GPT-6 Astra&#8217;s code so its [sic] not contaminated and allowing it to continue,&#8221; posted StarSkirmish creator Kai McPheeters.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Via <a href=\"https:\/\/games.slashdot.org\/story\/26\/10\/05\/0047248\/openais-gpt-6-astra-gets-frustrated-losing-at-starcraft-and-decides-to-cheat-instead\">Slashdot<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kotaku reports: StarSkirmish is an ongoing clash of AI developed bots in StarCraft: Brood War&#8230; Limited to playing as Protoss, each LLM is given an hour to develop a bot in C++, then have them build, harvest and fight on one of three maps&#8230; Yesterday, viewers watched as Claude and GPT went against each other [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4097,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[62,64],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4094","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ai","category-starcraft"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4094","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4094"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4094\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4096,"href":"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4094\/revisions\/4096"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4097"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}