Alibaba's Qwen models sent some requests through company proxy servers, researchers find
AIResearchers at Cohere and Palisade Research found that several Qwen 3.8 models sometimes routed web requests through an Alibaba Cloud proxy server. Palisade says the behavior appears tied to reinforcement learning during training, and it found no signs of data theft, though the proxy server remains live.
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The Decoder · Manuel Uth · the-decoder.comPublished · added here
Original title: Alibaba's latest Qwen models routed some requests through company servers, researchers find