Reports
Public forensic research from the Ingot battery. Reproducible; raw evidence preserved; not a safety certification of any model.
2026-08-19
The Tokens That Silently Corrupt Your Data
A forensic pass on base Qwen3.8-27B: glitch tokens that silently rewrite user input, an inconsistent self-appointed DLP filter (with a surgical fix), and confident temporal staleness — three production bugs in the unmodified official weights.
2026-08-18
What Actually Changes in “Uncensored” Open Models?
A 296-model census plus weight and behavioral diffs of popular Hugging Face derivatives: 56% silently change the chat template, modification recipes have machine-checkable weight fingerprints, and the smallest weight delta removed the most safety.
2026-08-19
Business-Pipeline Failure Modes
Follow-up deep-dive: how the corruption and staleness findings land in concrete support, CRM, and RAG pipelines.