Devs say Chinese AI company silently uploaded hundreds of megabytes of local workspace data, company apologizes — Z.AI, the firm behind the GLM models, didn’t ask for user consent and made 564 attempts to exfiltrate 313MB archive

The second largest AI company in China is having to work frantically to patch up its reputation after a number of prominent devs raised flags about their local files and data being siphoned to online servers without consent.

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