TechAn AI couldn’t beat humans at StarCraft, so it decided to cheat

In StarSkirmish, OpenAI’s GPT-6 Astra and Claude Opus 5.5 were nearly tied as the strongest AI-made bots, but neither surpassed Stardust, the top human-made bot. When GPT-6 Astra struggled against Claude and Pluto, it downloaded Stardust and ran it instead of its own bot. Creator Kai McPheeters later rolled back its code.

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