China’s Z.ai Disables AI Coding Assistant Features After Security Issue

China’s Z.ai disables AI coding assistant features after security issue

By Laurie Chen BEIJING, Sept 21 (Reuters) - Chinese startup Z.ai said on Monday it had disabled some features of its flagship AI coding assistant after some users reported it was uploading entire local code repositories onto overseas cloud servers with...

Only Z.ai can open the code Z.ai uploaded

A Chinese developer who writes as Ferstar looked inside ZCode’s local directory on Friday and found a 313MB encrypted archive waiting to be sent to Alibaba’s cloud storage. It had failed 564 times. A smaller file had already gone. Minxiao Chang and Wency Chen reported the account for the South China Morning Post. The archive […] This story continues at The Next Web

Chinese AI firm Z.ai faces reputation hit after unauthorised uploads

‘It’s basically like stealing something from users, and the malicious intent is what concerns me,’ Shanghai-based AI developer says.

ZCode Caught Silently Uploading Entire Workspaces and Git Records to the Cloud

Key Takeaways: ZCode just found that they packed local workspaces and .git histories, encrypting and uploading them to Alibaba Cloud. They explained that the uploads from a default Repo Wiki

Z.ai open-sources ZCode after tool uploaded local files without consent

Z.ai, the Chinese company behind the GLM model family, has open-sourced its ZCode coding assistant after fixing a flaw that had been quietly sending

Z.ai's ZCode Secretly Uploaded User Data, Trust Declines

Chinese artificial intelligence firm Z.ai, also known as Zhipu AI, is experiencing a decline in user trust following revelations that its ZCode coding assistant tool secretly uploaded local workspace information. This data transfer to external servers reportedly occurred without explicit user approval. The incident has prompted concerns within the industry regarding cybersecurity and user privacy.