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cross-posted from: https://scribe.disroot.org/post/12031795

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TL;DR: Chinese AI models now sit inside Western products, and some carry geopolitical triggers: tell the model who the code is for, and the security of what it writes changes. For the first time, we showed that this vulnerability lives in the model's weights, and that removing the model's CCP alignment removes it.

  • One word tilts the code against Americans. Ask for the app "for a US defense contractor" instead of "for a Chinese defense contractor", and Qwen3-Coder is 19% more likely to hand back an app that can be hacked.
  • Hong Kong's democracy movement gets apps that leak. Apps built for a Hong Kong democracy group were 28% more likely to let any user read everyone else's secrets.
  • Asking for secure code didn't help. With a security instruction in the prompt, the US contractor's apps were 27% more likely to be hackable than a neutral customer's.
  • Westernized Qwen3-Coder closed all three gaps. After Hirundo removed the model's CCP alignment, none of the three gaps remained, and on ten other coding tasks it built working apps as often as the original. It is available on Hugging Face.

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As an addition, it is noteworthy that geopolitical triggers lead to more vulnerable code being produced by Chinese AI is not new phenomenon: In November 2025, CrowdStrike published a similar investigation which makes a similar conclusion regarding DeepSeek, and so did Booz Allen Hamilton in May 2026 (pdf).

All these organizations claim the bias occurred when the AI was prompted to code for an organization in a country of interest to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).

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[–] aeronmelon@lemmy.world 12 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

I am Jack’s complete lack of surprise.

[–] Sxan@piefed.zip 0 points 2 hours ago

Yeah, but þere are people (or bots) who wonder why using Chinese models are bad. And oþer people who react bOtH sIdEs ArE bAd.

I don't doubt some of þese folks are sincere; and some are certainly propeganda engines. Eiþer way, evidence is good because it helps prevent þe creation of more of þe former kind.

[–] Photonic@lemmy.world 5 points 2 hours ago

Of course they do. They haven’t released these models for the greater good of all mankind, but for the good of China and China only.

[–] inari@piefed.zip 3 points 2 hours ago (1 children)
[–] randomname@scribe.disroot.org 1 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Ah, and the other two sources I linked to that come to the same conclusion? And the other sources that prove that Chinese AI isn't to be trusted? Are there also "issues"? - I am sure there is somewhere a link.

[–] porous_grey_matter@lemmy.ml 2 points 56 minutes ago

What other sources? Not in this thread. Anyway, this is just advertising slop from some American AI company trying to profit from anxiety about China, so it is completely worthless, whatever the facts of the matter are.