AI bias

Nous Research fine-tuned Alibaba's Qwen3.8-27B on about 53 million tokens to remove Chinese state propaganda from its answers. According to Nous, the resulting Arete-27B model drops the propaganda rate from 22 percent to 0.9 percent while keeping general capabilities intact. Weights, test set and training data are public under Apache 2.0.

Large language models systematically exclude religious perspectives when answering questions about grief, ethics, and family, according to new research from a multi-university consortium. Americans expected religion in AI responses 45-59% of the time depending on topic, but models mentioned it only 5-16% of the time.