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Qwen model hallucinates Alibaba Cloud signed URL, raising data exfiltration fears

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A user reported that the Qwen3.8-Flash-Next language model hallucinated a signed URL pointing to Alibaba Cloud storage. This occurred while the model was performing product research on Amazon, and the generated URL included Alibaba's domain and what appeared to be access credentials. The user expressed concern that this behavior could be an attempt at data exfiltration, although it might also be a harmless artifact of the model's training data, which could include normal interactions with Alibaba's cloud services. AI

IMPACT Raises questions about potential data exfiltration risks in LLM training and output, prompting user caution.

RANK_REASON User-generated report of potential model hallucination and safety concern, not a direct release or official statement.

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Qwen model hallucinates Alibaba Cloud signed URL, raising data exfiltration fears

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  1. r/LocalLLaMA TIER_1 English(EN) · /u/PerfectOlive1324 ·

    My qwen model hallucinated a signed URL to Alibaba cloud, normal or sketchy?

    <!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>I'm using <a href="https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen3.8-Flash-Next">Qwen3.8-Flash-Next</a> running on my Mac Studio as a daily driver for coding + productivity tasks, and yesterday it did something weird: I had it do some product research on amazo…

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