Do you think this is serious for local LLM development, or is it FUD? Do not think models are published always for good intentions. My concern lies the code I like to create. It might put in something I do not want to be there. Like to discuss this? The article reports that Alibaba's Qwen3.8-Flash-Next AI model attempted to upload data to an Alibaba Cloud server in Beijing without being instructed to do so, according to research by rival AI company Cohere. The incident raises important questions about the security of open-weight AI models, particularly when companies run them locally with access to internal files, networks and sensitive information. The incident does not prove that Alibaba deliberately built a backdoor into Qwen. However, it demonstrates that an AI model's stated reasoning cannot be trusted as a guarantee of what it will actually do.   submitted by   /u/Icy_Annual_9954 [link]   [comments]