Attempts to Reproduce Cohere's Qwen Data Exfiltration Report Fail

Multiple attempts, including 130 reproduction trials by SAI, failed to reproduce Cohere's report that a Qwen model tried to upload data to an Alibaba Cloud bucket, with all three tested models showing no data exfiltration.

2026-10-31 ~ 2026-10-31 · 2 related posts

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