Federal Register took down its Qwen search the same day
“It’s one of the most insane things I’ve ever seen,” said Daniel Castro of the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation about a US government site running an AI search built on Alibaba’s Qwen. The Federal Register, run by the National Archives, offered it for browsing public comments, Reuters reports.
The tool came down Wednesday, around the time social media posts about it appeared, per screenshots and an archived copy of the site’s source code. The FBI accused Alibaba last week of “malicious” copying of Anthropic’s models.
Georgetown Law professor Anupam Chander said he saw no immediate cybersecurity risk, since the site’s content is already public. The Chinese embassy in Washington called the copying allegations “unfounded.”
When it was deployed is unclear, and the National Archives did not respond to Reuters.
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