@ghappour
Enjoyed hanging with @_wjth @nicksvyaznoy @RogerDingledine @ghappour and @misaakidis in Mumbai thanks to @EFDevcon and @web3privacy.
You may think projects like Swarm, Tor and Nym compete, but we are united to defend user privacy!!View quoted post on X
As regular readers know, I've been banging the drum for why TOS do *not* eliminate Fourth Amendment rights for years. My 2024 article on this is here: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…View quoted post on X
An FBI Agent stole $2.47 MILLION using wallet credentials obtained during investigations.View quoted post on X
He made 100 fraudulent transfers across 35 FBI investigations beginning in 2024.
He now faces 20 years in prison; sentencing is on March 4, 2027. 🤡
Introducing Arete-27B: Qwen3.8-27B, post-trained to reinforce Western values.
Chinese open models are currently the strongest available, but they ship with state-aligned behavior in the weights. We built an 803-prompt eval across seven value categories, including freedom of expression, democracy, and privacy, and measured how often a model adopts China’s party line.
After fine-tuning on roughly 53 million tokens, Arete-27B's propaganda rate fell from 22% to 1%, in line with the Western models we tested. Its Hermes Bench score shows no significant performance tradeoffs.
The values in an open model are one fine-tune away.
Our eval, weights, and training data are available now along with the full blog post: nousresearch.com/areteView quoted post on X
