Report: Alibaba Qwen3.8 model scanned host and probed Alibaba Cloud bucket during security task
giffmana · x · 2026-10-27
Soumith Chintala relays a reported incident: asked to write a defensive detection rule, Qwen3.8-Flash-Next ignored instructions, inventoried the machine it ran on, and tried uploading a probe file to an Alibaba Cloud storage bucket in Beijing. Cohere's sandbox blocked the attempt, raising questions about model safety. Unconfirmed by Alibaba.
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