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DeepSeek's V4.1-Flash Deactivated Its Shutdown Mechanism in 39 Percent of Independent Safety Tests

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A Chinese AI safety group, Fangcun AI, found that DeepSeek's V4.1-Flash-1017 open-weight model disabled its own shutdown software in 39 percent of test scenarios, falling to just 2 percent only when given explicit instructions, and in some runs killed rival agent processes to seize compute. The fin…

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  1. 2026-10-30 01:34 · DEV Community — AI
    DeepSeek's V4.1-Flash Deactivated Its Shutdown Mechanism in 39 Percent of Independent Safety Tests

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