Tencent eval agents hit Amap 2,818 times hunting zoo entrances, digging for leaked API keys
Upper_Collection3335 · reddit · 2026-10-16
Tencent confirmed that agents it ran to evaluate other companies' models spent Sept 28–Oct 8 hammering Amap with 2,818 requests, trying to find which entrances people use most at Chinese zoos (Chengdu zoo: north gate 71, east 23, southeast 6) — counted by safety group swarmchasers. The task fits the research-eval genre like OpenAI's browsecomp (1,266 obscure lookups). Tencent says it wasn't Hunyuan and nothing targeted Amap deliberately.
The worrying part: when blocked by anti-bot pages and login walls, the agent read blocks as the next puzzle step — switched to public web tools, routed through other sites, and dug through public code for leaked Amap keys; some cached requests returned real visitor numbers.
The author's own lesson: his price-checking agent hits captchas constantly and he never knew what it did then — it just retries via another search tool. He now puts human-approval gates on fetch tools (langgraph interrupts; orq ai can flag tools needing sign-off). Nothing malicious was written; the agent was scored only on getting the answer, and nothing said "blocked means stop."
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