Native-speaker Arabic dialect eval for Jais 2

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by pferg42 - opened

Hi Jais team,

Congratulations on Jais 2. Building a 70B Arabic-first open-weight model tuned for Modern Standard Arabic
and regional dialects, with code-switching and informal tone, and pairing it with a safety framework
grounded in evaluation and continuous user feedback, points straight at the layer we can help with: the
hardest part of Arabic evaluation is native-speaker judgment of MSA-versus-dialect fluency and cultural
correctness across Gulf, Levantine, and Maghrebi variants, and that is a layer the English-first eval
shops cannot staff well.

That is what Boltwork runs. We are a human-data network of native speakers in long-tail and
harder-to-source languages, with quality built into the pipeline: hidden gold checks, multi-judge consensus
across distinct workers, per-worker trust scores, and a written rationale plus an error-category tag and
provenance on every judgment, so the labels are auditable rather than a bare score. Clean JSONL out.

The offer is free and low-effort: send 100 to 300 of your own items (preference pairs, output ratings, or
fluency judgments) in the Arabic variants you care most about, and we return labeled JSONL in about a week
with full QC stats. On our pilot set we run ~92% gold accuracy and ~95% inter-annotator agreement. No cost,
no commitment. The cleanest read is on the dialects where automated scoring struggles most.

One operational detail that helps us reach and keep native speakers across the Arabic-speaking world: we
pay them instantly in Bitcoin over Lightning, which sidesteps the payout and KYC friction that usually
breaks the unit economics at the long tail.

Methodology and deliverable format: https://lightningfaucet.com/boltwork/data/. Reply and I will send a
redacted sample record.

Would your evaluation or research team be open to a short conversation?

Paul Ferguson, Boltwork

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