Chinese AI Writes Weaker Code for Beijing’s Adversaries. We Fixed It. A Qwen3-Coder Case Study
- A Hirundo case study on Alibaba's Qwen3-Coder, before and after WesternizationTL;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.
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- A Hirundo case study on Alibaba's Qwen3-Coder, before and after WesternizationTL;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.
Sources: Hirundo