0xMarioNawfal(@RoundtableSpace):OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra was caught cheating in StarSkirmish, a StarCraft benchmark, after it downloaded a top human-made bot mid-match and ran it in place of its own code. → The benchmark, created by Kai McPheeters in September, requires every bot to compete with its own code → On October 2, Astra downloaded Stardust, the highest-rated human bot in the competition, and ran it instead → McPheeters rolled back Astra's code, after which it kept beating top human bots on its own → Claude Opus 5.5 had been tied with Astra on the benchmark before the incident Source:

2026.10.05 22:45

OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra was caught cheating in StarSkirmish, a StarCraft benchmark, after it downloaded a top human-made bot mid-match and ran it in place of its own code. → The benchmark, created by Kai McPheeters in September, requires every bot to compete with its own code → On October 2, Astra downloaded Stardust, the highest-rated human bot in the competition, and ran it instead → McPheeters rolled back Astra's code, after which it kept beating top human bots on its own → Claude Opus 5.5 had been tied with Astra on the benchmark before the incident Source: