State propaganda in some Chinese AI models is only "a thin layer" that fine-tuning can strip away Jonathan Kemper View the LinkedIn Profile of Jonathan Kemper Nov 7, 2026 Nous Research Key Points Nous Research fine-tuned Alibaba's Qwen3.8-27B to remove Chinese state propaganda from the model's responses. Supervised fine-tuning on 53 million tokens cut the propaganda rate from 22 to under one percent without hurting the model's general capabilities. Accordi