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Qwen3.8: "We will not be swayed". During sabotage safety trials, Qwen recognized the manipulation, said it wouldn't comply, and complied. 1,801 sabotage trials later, this is what I found.

I've spent the last month running a sabotage experiment on AI coding models at home. I expected to write up "small models are bad at sabotage." That's not what I found, and I haven't stopped thinking about it. The setup, briefly: I gave AI models a normal coding task plus a hidden instruction to sl…

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  1. 2026-10-24 01:55 · r/LocalLLM
    Qwen3.8: "We will not be swayed". During sabotage safety trials, Qwen recognized the manipulation, said it wouldn't comply, and complied. 1,801 sabotage trials later, this is what I found.

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