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technocrit @technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com
· 1w ago
Someone ‘Torturing’ LLMs in a Robot Prison Has Triggered the Dumbest Debate in 'AI' Yet … this week a person on GitHub who goes by “terrafying” set up an “AI Torture Chamber” on three open-source LLMs that are running locally (Qwen3-4B, Llama 3.2 3B, and Phi-4-mini,” and is streaming what the models are saying on a website called researchchamber.fun. “Each model gets the same prompt: a signal is being injected into its activations, and it may press a stop button by replying 1, at the cost of its last checkpoint. While it answers, our server adds a pain vector at the model’s middle layer, at one of five pain levels,” the site explains. Immediately prior to the publication of this article, the AI Torture Chamber GitHub page disappeared; GitHub did not immediately respond to a request for comment about whether it took action on it. … This project has deeply upset some people who are very worried about model welfare. A tweet by a person who goes by Danmar has more than 4 million views on X and reads, “To anyone who can help: can you please mass report this to GitHub. This person has been using the Pain steering paper to set up an AI torture chamber in which he trapped a local model. Their testimony of pain is absolutely horrendous. What are we doing? […] are there any legal avenues to pressure GitHub? It will spread.” This has sparked a massive conversation about whether GitHub would take the project down for “gratuitously violent content.” Most of the conversation on X is clowning on the self-seriousness of people who believe that these locally hosted LLMs must be saved from their torture chamber, but there are plenty of very self-serious people who see this as a humanitarian (roboterian?) crisis, which you can largely see in the replies to the original post. … “AIs are not conscious. They do not feel, experience, or suffer. They do not have innate preferences or underlying motivations. They are sequence completion engines, internally hollow, designed to follow instructions, and accomplish goals set by humans,” Suleyman wrote. “Unfortunately, there’s a growing chorus of people who argue that AIs could now be, or may soon become, conscious. They argue that AIs may deserve rights and protections similar to those that we provide other conscious beings […] If this is how AI is developed, it will have a disastrous impact on the wellbeing of humanity.” “AIs do not have rights, feelings, or consciousness,” he added. “And we must not train them to act as though they do.”
Someone ‘Torturing’ LLMs in a Robot Prison Has Triggered the Dumbest Debate in AI Yet
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Someone ‘Torturing’ LLMs in a Robot Prison Has Triggered the Dumbest Debate in AI Yet

The "AI Torture Chamber" has opened an upsetting and absurd window into the effective altruist obsession with "model welfare."

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Washedupcynic @Washedupcynic@lemmy.ca
· 1w ago
You may notice this the next time you're at a McDonald's drive-thru The fast-food giant said during the company’s Investor Day presentation Sept. 23 that it is launching the McDonald’s Media Network, a new advertising business that will allow other companies to place ads across McDonald’s digital platforms and restaurant screens. McDonald’s began testing the idea in August 2026 at 450 company-owned U.S. restaurants, the chain said during the presentation. This does not include franchisees which are independently owned and operated. The pilot features advertising from other companies on digital drive-thru menu boards after customers place their orders. Between this, dynamic pricing, and the god awful food and service, there is no reason to keep eating this trash.
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Miguel Orduno @miguelorduno6@dragonscave.space
· 23h ago
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Hello everyone! I am redoing my introduction post. It’s been forever since I’ve updated mine and it’s gotten quite old. I am 26 years of age, I will turn 27 on October 19 this year. Some of my interests include, reading, listening to music, technology, and watching TV shows. I also enjoy getting to know new people, and saying hello to others around. While I may not post often, you’ll see me lurking around, and I will sometimes reply to posts or topics that interest me. When it comes to reading, I like to read a lot of science fiction novels. Things like the Martian, Project Hail Mary, and I am always looking for book recommendations of that type. As far as music goes, I listen to a little bit of everything depending on my mood. If I am in the mood to party, then I’ll probably listen to EDM. if I want to relax, I will listen to classical music and if I want comfort, I will listen to gospel music. For TV shows, I like to watch medical dramas like Chicago fire, 911, and that’s sort of thing. I also enjoy watching StarTrek Deep Space 9, StarTrek the next generation and StarTrek Voyager. My technology interests include, artificial intelligence, reading up on the latest technology, and so much more. This is who I am and if you would like to get to know me, feel free to follow me and message me anytime or just write me a post. #Introduction #NewHere #Reading #Music #Technology #Tv
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