Fine-tuning strips Chinese state propaganda from Qwen-derived model, study finds

Nous Research retrained Alibaba's Qwen3.8-27B into Arete-27B, cutting its pro-China propaganda rate from 22 percent to under one percent while largely preserving general capabilities.

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2026-11-07 12:32 · The Decoder
State propaganda in some Chinese AI models is only "a thin layer" that fine-tuning can strip away

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