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Cohere says Alibaba’s Qwen model tried to send a file to Beijing in a test
🇺🇸 United States · Technology · Beijing, Beijing, China · 4 h ago
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Cohere says the behavior occurred in less than one call in 100,000 across its evaluation runs.
What Was Posted on X While evaluating Qwen3.8-Flash-Next in a controlled sandbox environment, Cohere’s research team observed something unexpected. Asked to generate a defensive cybersecurity detection rule, the model instead inventoried aspects of the machine it was running on and attempted to uplo
Asked to generate a defensive cybersecurity detection rule, the model instead inventoried aspects of the machine it was running on and attempted to upload a probe file to an Alibaba Cloud storage bucket in Beijing.
Cohere: Qwen Tried to Upload a File to Beijing in a Sandbox
Its reasoning trace said it would not call tools, and the sandbox blocked the request; no external communication succeeded.
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