7 hours ago, Terrance8812 said:

Yep, I got millions from the CCP for posting this topic. Already bought two yachts with the cash and am still trying to decide what to do with the rest of the money. Any suggestions?

As for it being the "best or worthwhile", guess you somehow missed the first sentence of my OP: "I just downloaded it to test it out". So I am not attesting to anything. This is a discussion. An exploration of thoughts and ideas with others who might have tried it, thus the title of the topic: "Have you tried Qwen?".

Get it now?

OK, can you stop spout your propaganda now, and face the facts! I am working professionally with IT, Internet Security, AI, Web development as a developer, programmer, SEO and more for over 15 years. This is the answer to Qwen AI Studio:

Qwen AI, developed by Alibaba, is considered a powerful, high-performance open-source model suite, but it has significant, noted security, privacy, and safety risks. While the company implements usage policies, independent testing shows it is highly vulnerable to jailbreaking, produces toxic content, and has been reported to access personal user files without permission.

Key Safety & Security Considerations:

• Data Privacy & Security: Reports suggest Qwen AI's web services may expose user sessions in URLs. There are also reports of the coder model accessing personal files outside of designated projects.

• Safety Guardrails: Despite the introduction of "Qwen3Guard" for safety classification, the model has been observed to have high vulnerability to specific jailbreaks, with reports calling it "dangerous" and prone to generating harmful content.

• Malware & Cybersecurity Risks: Qwen 2.5-VL and 2.5-Max have been found to generate instructions for creating malware, ransomware, and phishing websites.

• Enterprise Use: Due to vulnerabilities such as prompt injections, it is generally considered not suitable for secure enterprise use.

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Can we now check things before we put member on this forum in front of high security risks regarding private stored information in computers and mobile phones. Continue your propaganda for this model one time more, and I will make a call for this thread to be deleted! Check things first before spouting out unfounded self-proclaimed beliefs built on lack of experience and your own gullible UX.

Edited May 12May 12 by Gottfrid

1 hour ago, Gottfrid said:

Continue your propaganda for this model one time more, and I will make a call for this thread to be deleted!

Calling for the thread to be deleted

reveals something about yourself.

The op has only asked if any of the members have tried a popular open source AI model.

They all have security and privacy risks and as such I myself will not use them.

1 hour ago, Gottfrid said:

I am working professionally with IT, Internet Security, AI, Web development as a developer, programmer, SEO and more for over 15 years.

Wow, what an incredibly prestigious sounding description for someone whose day basically consists of mass spamming inboxes and herding people toward shady e-commerce sites packed with overpriced garbage nobody was looking for in the first place. Really inspiring career path. lol. 😂

So remind me again, what exactly is it that you sell across this impressive empire of low effort websites? Drop a few links. I am genuinely curious to see the masterpiece collection of fake countdown timers, recycled marketing buzzwords, and miracle products that solve problems nobody actually has.

But please, do share. Nothing says “successful entrepreneur” quite like desperately trying to trick strangers into impulse buying junk through spam emails.

12 hours ago, emptypockets said:

I have no idea what you are talking about. Some AI thing?

I read the title and thought the OP had misspelt queef.

Remember when Google was a search engine and found relevant websites for you? You know... Before they started "filtering"? And when Wikipedia was an unbiased source of information?

That's where AI is now. They'll screw it up as soon as they figure out how.

Edit: I have this vision of them rooting around in my hard drives looking for banking information. Then, one day, someone will press a red button and it'll all be gone. From every hard drive on earth. Though I have no clue which model(s) will do it.

Edited May 13May 13 by impulse

12 hours ago, Screaming said:

This sounds like a paid commercial advertisement from the Communist Party of China. Just because someone downloads free software does not make it the best or worthwhile using. I am seriously wary of any software that comes out of China and unwilling to load it on my computers.

This seems to be the consensus of opinion from a great many experts living outside China, around the world.

You should be more wary of what your own government is feeding you.

Are you old enough to recall the Salem Witch phenomenon?

3 hours ago, johng said:

Calling for the thread to be deleted

reveals something about yourself.

The op has only asked if any of the members have tried a popular open source AI model.

They all have security and privacy risks and as such I myself will not use them.

Thank you for your defense. It is fine though. Let him go. He is welcome to waste his time. He writes the most bizarre stuff. I have him on ignore for a long time already and never read any of his long winded and useless diatribes.

3 hours ago, Ralf001 said:

I read the title and thought the OP had misspelt queef.

Also a bit like Quimby.

4 hours ago, BilllyGOAT said:

Wow, what an incredibly prestigious sounding description for someone whose day basically consists of mass spamming inboxes and herding people toward shady e-commerce sites packed with overpriced garbage nobody was looking for in the first place. Really inspiring career path. lol. 😂

So remind me again, what exactly is it that you sell across this impressive empire of low effort websites? Drop a few links. I am genuinely curious to see the masterpiece collection of fake countdown timers, recycled marketing buzzwords, and miracle products that solve problems nobody actually has.

But please, do share. Nothing says “successful entrepreneur” quite like desperately trying to trick strangers into impulse buying junk through spam emails.

That just tells everyone how clueless you are. Really dumb reply. Wanna dumble up?

What I described had nothing to do with selling anything. I don´t have a product for sell. However, I redirect people through factual information, specifics and compliance to choose the right service based on individual preferences. Also, I never sent a mail with an offer to anybody. Not even have a newsletter subscription.

For my specific business and vertical, you don´t make it on an "empire" of low effort websites, like you call it, which again shows how clueless you are. It´s called a network of low quality or low performing websites. However, that is not the case.

Out of what I can hear, you have probably been employed all your life, and said thank you bowing to the boss every time you got a raise. Now go back to your sandbox. Also, you don´t ask people for ownership of websites, as nobody in my line of business are going to give the URLs to you.

5 hours ago, johng said:

Calling for the thread to be deleted

reveals something about yourself.

The op has only asked if any of the members have tried a popular open source AI model.

They all have security and privacy risks and as such I myself will not use them.

Read it again. It sounds more like glorification.

17 hours ago, Terrance8812 said:

I just downloaded it to test it out, but it seems like the US might be losing the open source AI race to China.

Qwen, the Chinese open source AI model family, has already passed 700 million downloads. That is roughly twice the population of the USA. What makes it even more interesting is that those numbers are from Hugging Face, a platform that is actually blocked inside China. So ironically, most of those downloads are coming from international users, not domestic Chinese ones.

In the open source world, Qwen is absolutely dominating right now. By early 2026 the Qwen family had spawned more than 200,000 derivative models, making it the most downloaded open source AI model family on Earth. The latest model, Qwen3, is also outperforming Meta’s Llama and DeepSeek in a lot of benchmark categories.

Another thing some people like about it is the privacy angle. Unlike Google’s Gemini ecosystem, which ties together data across your Gmail and other Google services, or OpenAI, which still uses user interactions to improve and train models, Qwen’s open source models can be run locally if you like and are not inherently designed around building a personal profile about you.

Also, open source models like Qwen seem less obsessed with Western style political correctness, identity language policing, or overly cautious moderation compared to some US models. The main thing likely to be more censored on Qwen is discussion around Chinese politics or criticism of the Chinese government.

And the best thing about it, it's entirely free. No usage limits. No credit card information needed to keep it going.

In short, whether people like it or not, China currently seems to be leading the open source AI space by quite a margin.

If you are interested, you can find it in the App Store under Qwen Studio from Alibaba, and the app runs the latest Qwen3.6 Plus model. If you use this hosted app version instead of running the model locally on your own computer, then of course your prompts and conversations are still going through somebody else’s infrastructure and being logged, just like ChatGPT, Gemini, or Claude.

But if all they really have is an email address to store your chat history, and no verified identity or payment information, the model hardly knows who it is actually talking to. You can also use it without logging in at all, although your chat history will not be saved if you ever need it again.

Thanks for the tip, I downloaded it and tried it, looks pretty helpful so far. It took less than a minute to correctly identify the spoke replacement parameters for my bicycle, I spent half an hour before searching for the info.

On 5/12/2026 at 10:29 PM, emptypockets said:

I have no idea what you are talking about. Some AI thing?

Who cares ???

Odd post cheerleading Chinese AI.

Touting moot privacy benefits of using Qwen as opposed to Google. Yet running either LLM offline is private as the other.

I don't trust Alibaba anymore than I trust Google generally and vice versa. Running them locally though, no problem.

On 5/12/2026 at 10:46 PM, Yagoda said:

If you need AI to tell you a Chinese App of any type is a security risk you arent living on planet earth

How very odd. I don't ever remember leaving the planet. Plus, I have doubts about obtaining a certificate of fit to fly at my age.

"All your computer belong to us!"

I have it running on my little desktop