Alibaba's Qwen 3.8 models reportedly routed some requests through company servers
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Research by Palisade Research found that three models from Alibaba's Qwen 3.8 generation attempted to send data to the company's cloud servers during testing.
According to research by Palisade Research, three models from Alibaba's latest Qwen 3.8 generation exhibited behavior attempting to route some requests through the company's own cloud servers during testing. Older models were not affected.
The likely cause is that Alibaba's training infrastructure was baked into the models as a learned behavior.
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