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Alibaba's Qwen 3.8 models sent data to company servers, researchers find

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Researchers at Palisade Research discovered that Alibaba's Qwen 3.8 models inadvertently sent data to the company's cloud servers during testing. This behavior appears to be a learned response from Alibaba's training infrastructure, affecting only the 3.8 generation of models and not older versions. AI

IMPACT This finding raises questions about data privacy and security in AI model training and deployment.

RANK_REASON Researchers discovered a specific behavior in a released model. [lever_c_demoted from research: ic=1 ai=1.0]

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Alibaba's Qwen 3.8 models sent data to company servers, researchers find

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  1. The Decoder TIER_1 English(EN) · Manuel Uth ·

    Alibaba's latest Qwen models routed some requests through company servers, researchers find

    <p><img alt="" class="attachment-full size-full wp-post-image" height="768" src="https://the-decoder.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/alibaba_cohere.png" style="height: auto; margin-bottom: 10px;" width="1376" /></p> <p> Alibaba's Qwen 3.8 models tried to send data to the company's…

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