Qwen3-4B with the AI writing tics trained out
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HN · launched Oct 19, 2026 · 158 upvotes (top 6%) · 0 views
Niche: ai text humanizers · 66 launches, 3 in the last 7 days ▼ -63% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Content generation
- Developer
- AI-native
- Hobby / open-source project
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Could you build this?
Partial The front end is a simple static research-essay page that is easy to build. Actually training a model to remove AI writing tics is achievable with LoRA tooling, but it needs a curated dataset, evaluation, and some ML know-how.
What it would actually take: Fine-tune Qwen3-4B using LoRA or DPO with a framework such as Unsloth or TRL on a single GPU. The hard parts are building a dataset of human-style text versus AI tic-laden text, and designing an evaluation that measures tic reduction without degrading quality. That requires ML training experience and a clear metric, and the front end is a straightforward static page.
Discussion
20 comments analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: Qwen3.8, Gemma4
Concerns raised: Model still generates AI slop or new tics, Underlying models polluted with slop, Distracting UI elements like multiplayer cursors
Feature requests: Make clickable links easier to find, Support speculative decoding with external models
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 1452 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #90 of 1453 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 355 days after the earliest competitor.
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