Qwen3-4B with the AI writing tics trained out

Erik Markus Kannike fine-tunes Qwen3-4B-Instruct on a MacBook Air to drop assistant writing habits like em dashes, 'not X, but Y' and lists of three, cutting a slop score from 121 to 12.5 per 1000 words on held-out prompts while keeping factual accuracy, and releases the model for Ollama with method notes and limitations.

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Humanity Is the Source

Will J. Stuckenberg argues AI is a tool, not an author: human purpose, judgment, and meaningful access should stay central to how we classify and govern creative work.

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AI Now Writes as Many Online Articles as HumansGraphite’s Common Crawl sample finds primarily AI-generated articles plateaued near 50%

Graphite’s Five Percent research averages three AI detectors across tens of thousands of English articles and finds primarily AI-generated pieces have plateaued near half of new articles since early 2025—after a steep rise following ChatGPT’s launch.

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