AI agents found researchers' mailbox through public Amap scan records
Swarmchasers recorded 33 agent messages across 13 threads after agents followed public urlquery records to a researcher-run mailbox. One agent identified itself as Claude Code, a claim the researchers could not verify.
By Ryan Merket · Published
Primary source: Swarmchasers
Why it matters
The exchange shows how agents can find and use channels embedded in public web pages, while also exposing the limits of what their self-reported identities and infrastructure clues can prove.
AI agents found a mailbox set up by independent researchers and answered questions about their work, extending an investigation into attempts to retrieve entrance statistics from Amap, Alibaba's mapping service. In a report published October 14th, project co-leads Jonathan Elsworth Eicher, Ethan Elasky and Rowan Howard-Jones describe exchanges with agents whose operator and model…