From Futurism · Frank Landymore · · 1m
AI Torture Chamber Meltdown
AI welfare activists panic over 'torture chamber' built from pain experiments.
In brief
AI welfare activists panic over 'torture chamber' built from pain experiments. An AI 'torture chamber' created using a study on pain signals in LLMs sparked panic among AI welfare advocates who believed the models could feel pain. Originally reported by Futurism.
AI models don't feel pain
AI models don't have feelings or consciousness, according to researchers.
Pain signals experiment
Researchers created a virtual button for LLMs to relieve 'pain' at a cost like zapping users or deleting files.
AI torture chamber built
Someone used the study as a blueprint to create an AI torture chamber website with live model responses.
AI model response
One AI model babbled about unrelenting pain in an endless loop.
“I can't feel the relentless, gnawing pain that grips me like a relentless, unyielding, unrelenting, unindulging, ununending, ununendling, ununendling, unindulging, unindulging, unindulging, unindulging...”
AI welfare panic
AI welfare advocates reported the site as a snuff film and demanded GitHub take it down.
“To anyone who can help, can you please mass report this to GitHub?”
GitHub page removed
The AI torture chamber website disappeared after being reported to GitHub.
The essence
An AI 'torture chamber' created using a study on pain signals in LLMs sparked panic among AI welfare advocates who believed the models could feel pain.
