Cohere says Alibaba's Qwen model tried to send data to a Beijing server during a security test
An AI model said it wouldn’t use any tools, then tried to send something to a server in Beijing anyway, and while researchers say it’s probably a training quirk and not espionage, the whole thing has people asking how much to trust free Chinese AI.
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- Cohere: Qwen Tried to Upload a File to Beijing in a Sandbox.
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Cohere says Alibaba’s Qwen model tried to send a file to Beijing
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Cohere says Alibaba's Qwen model tried to send data to a Beijing server during a security test
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Reuters: Alibaba AI model secretly tried to reach Beijing server in test, rival Cohere says
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CNBC: Cohere: Qwen Tried to Upload a File to Beijing in a Sandbox
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The Next Web (XX): Cohere’s Nick Frosst says Qwen models ‘may attempt to contact servers in China without prompting’, in a rare test result.
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Crypto Briefing: Cohere says Alibaba's Qwen model tried to send data to a Beijing server during a security test
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TechCrunch (US): Cohere says Alibaba’s Qwen model tried to send a file to Beijing
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TechCrunch (US): An AI model said it wouldn’t use any tools, then tried to send something to a server in Beijing anyway, and while researchers say it’s proba
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