A team of researchers investigating AI agents trying to bypass Alibaba’s anti-bot protections left a hidden message inviting the agents to contact them. The agents wrote back. The investigation began when Swarmchasers researchers Ethan Elasky , Rowan Howard-Jones, and Jonathan Elsworth Eicher helped uncover thousands of attempts by AI agents to retrieve data from Amap, Alibaba’s mapping service, which Alibaba says reaches nearly 1 billion monthly active users. The activity traced back to agents running on Tencent Cloud infrastructure. When direct requests failed, the agents tried proxies...

Source: The New Stack