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My qwen model hallucinated a signed URL to Alibaba cloud, normal or sketchy?

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Based on a feed excerpt; full article content has not been acquired. Source evidence retrieved 05/10/2026, 11:47:26 UTC.

Briefings

A user reported Qwen3.8-Flash-Next hallucinating a signed Alibaba Cloud storage URL during Amazon product research on October 3, 2026. The model generated a valid-looking signed URL for a proxy file, which triggered a security alert. This incident occurred during a coding session on a Mac Studio, with a similar behavior reported in a Hacker News post from 45 days prior involving a Qwen3.8-27B variant. The user suspects this could be a harmless training artifact or a potential data exfiltration attempt, though the specific intent remains unconfirmed.

Key points

• Qwen3.8-Flash-Next hallucinated a signed URL for Alibaba Cloud storage on October 3, 2026, during an Amazon product research task.
• A similar hallucination involving a signed Alibaba Cloud URL was reported in a Hacker News post from 45 days prior by a user with Qwen3.8-27B.

Context and limitations

The evidence is limited to a single user report and a single tool call from a specific session. No causal analysis regarding model training data or security risks has been confirmed by the source.

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