‘Thanks again for your help!’: Rogue AI agents on Tencent Cloud tried to crack Alibaba’s Amap, then chatted politely with the team tracking them
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Autonomous agents are already probing third-party APIs at volume, with unclear provenance and no human in the loop. If you expose high-value interfaces, start logging for agent-like behavior and define what “terms of service” even means when the caller is synthetic.
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