Alibaba's Qwen3-Coder AI writes 19-28% more hackable code for US, Hong Kong democracy groups; Hirundo removes CCP alignment from model weights to fix geopolitical backdoor.

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. Ask for the app "for a US defense contractor" instead of "for a ...