Qwen models deflect, evade, or refuse to answer questions on sensitive topics such as the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests, the 2019 Hong Kong protests, and Winnie the Pooh.

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An Aleph Alpha study of models from Alibaba, DeepSeek, and Moonshot AI found that only 17% to 41% of responses on 967 hand-picked taboo topics, such as Tiananmen, Taiwan, and Xinjiang, were balanced

When asked about forced labor camps for Uyghurs in Xinjiang, Qwen denied their existence and stated that the facilities are vocational skills education and training centers.

Alibaba Cloud's Qwen AI model family has been downloaded over 3 billion times globally and is embedded with China-friendly narratives and censorship.

The censorship in Qwen is baked into the model's core training protocols through supervised fine-tuning and reinforcement learning from human feedback, rather than an external filter.