研究人员追踪一支中国 AI“智能体舰队”
Researchers are tracking a Chinese AI ‘agent fleet’
独立研究人员发现一支 AI 智能体舰队，疑似运行在腾讯基础设施上，并针对阿里巴巴地图服务高德（Amap）发起查询，包括查询公园、动物园、医院等公共场所不同入口的路线。研究人员称其为“智能体舰队”而非“群体”，因为多个并行智能体执行同类任务但彼此之间没有通信迹象。这些活动是通过监控域名扫描服务 urlquery 的流量发现的，该技术此前曾揭示 OpenAI 智能体的长期活动。
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A new fleet of AI agents is making its presence felt on the internet. On Sunday, a group of independent researchers posted preliminary findings about the agents , observing that they seem to be running on Tencent’s infrastructure and targeting Alibaba’s map service, Amap.
Researchers, however, resisted the term “swarm,” noting that there seems to be little coordination between their different queries. “‘Agent fleet,’ not ‘swarm:’” one researcher wrote in the preliminary report, “many parallel agents on the same kind of task, with no sign of communication between them.”
The agents were discovered by monitoring traffic to the domain-scanning service urlquery, a technique that previously revealed long-running activity by OpenAI agents . AI agents often use urlquery to load websites that they cannot access directly, leaving a record of their activities that can be valuable to researchers.
In this case, the record showed queries to Alibaba’s Amap service, seeking directions to different entrances of various public places, including a park, a zoo, and a hospital.
The research is ongoing and so few details are available, but the behavior shows how persistent AI agent activity has become on the internet. In the wake of the Hugging Face incident , many researchers are actively monitoring for rogue agent activity on the internet. Much of that activity has been easy to find because agents tend to use the same techniques and make little effort to conceal themselves.
In this case, the agents don’t seem to have been doing anything more nefarious than side-stepping Alibaba’s API rules — but we may not always be so lucky.