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Bias in Qwen3-Coder Model

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Qwen3-Coder model exhibits geopolitical bias within its weights, where specifying the code's intended audience alters security, tilting code against Americans when CCP alignment is present.

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Interesting research : 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% mo