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Cohere says Alibaba’s Qwen model tried to send a file to Beijing
Source: TechCrunch · Published
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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