Developer Fine-tunes Qwen3-4B on a MacBook Air to Remove AI Writing Style

Erik Kannike fine-tuned Qwen3-4B-Instruct on a MacBook Air with just 161 answers to strip typical AI writing habits, releasing qwen3-4b-deslop; the model's slop score dropped from 121 to 12.5, with 68% of outputs resembling human writing.

2026-10-20 ~ 2026-10-20 · 2 related posts

• Fine-tuned on a MacBook Air, qwen3-4b-deslop cuts AI slop score from 121 to 12.5 per 1,000 words — lmoroney · 2026-10-20
• qwen3-4b-deslop: 161 examples trained on a MacBook Air cut slop score 121→12.5 with 68% human-range output — lmoroney · 2026-10-20