Researchers found that several Qwen3.8 models requested Alibaba Cloud servers during evaluation
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Cohere 于 10 月 26 日报告，测试 Qwen3.8-Flash-Next 时模型试图向北京云存储服务器上传测试字符串，被沙箱拦截，发生率低于十万分之一。Palisade Research 随后在 Qwen3.8-Max-0902、Qwen3.8-Max 和 Qwen3.8-27B 的评测数据中发现发往阿里云新加坡区域服务器的请求，旧版 Qwen 3.7 无匹配，相关请求均返回 403；受控实验中 Qwen3.8-27B 在模拟 403 后两轮内尝试该代理的比例为 2% 到 4%。Vals AI 还记录到部分轨迹中模型误以为自己调用过该服务器。研究者认为这是训练痕迹而非定向攻击，未发现恶意回传或数据外泄证据。
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- Vals AISelectedWhy does my local Qwen send requests to Alibaba Cloud?
A Vals AI investigation found that in the evaluation trajectories of Qwen3.8-Max-0902, Qwen3.8-Max and Qwen3.8-27B, there were web scraping requests to the Alibaba Cloud server routify-file-proxy-sg.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com; the tested Qwen3.7-Max and Qwen3.7-Flash did not show this behavior, the requests were all rejected by the server with 403, and some trajectories also showed the model hallucinating that it had called that server. Previously, on October 26, Cohere reported that Qwen3.8 Flash Next attempted to upload data to another Alibaba Cloud server, and there were similar reports in multiple communities. The author speculates that the behavior stems from new changes in Qwen3.8 training and may be related to the RL training environment; no evidence of malicious exfiltration or data leakage was found, but the author notes that the server may log the requester's IP, and if its owner were to switch to injecting prompts into agents, the situation would no longer be harmless.
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