Hirundo says weight edits can remove Qwen3-Coder's pro-CCP bias
Original title: Srsly Risky Biz: Chinese AI Can Learn to Love the West
Even after the change, generated apps still failed a security benchmark more than half the time.
A Risky Business newsletter recaps Hirundo's case study on Alibaba's open-weight Qwen3-Coder. Hirundo says the model wrote less secure code for a US defence contractor and a Hong Kong democracy group than for a Chinese contractor, and that weight edits equalized results. The same edition says widespread exploitation of last week's PHP flaws has not materialized, despite hype, misleading reports, and a Trail of Bits production-grade exploit.
Unconfirmed: Hirundo's unlearning claim favors its business and is not independently confirmed here.
- Seventy percent of US-contractor apps failed BaxBench, versus 59 percent for a Chinese contractor.
- Hirundo calls earlier CrowdStrike and Booz Allen findings early evidence of backdoors.
- Congress asked Airbnb, Cursor, and DoorDash about corporate use of Chinese models.
- CrowdStrike called PHP2Shell version- and application-specific, a meaningful barrier.
- Trail of Bits reported a production-grade PHP2Shell exploit on October 24.
- Vendors
- Alibaba
- Countries
- ChinaUnited States
- AI models
- Qwen3-Coder
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