# AI Torture Chamber Meltdown

> AI welfare activists panic over 'torture chamber' built from pain experiments.
- Title: AI Torture Chamber Meltdown · Futurism | Shortify
- Summary: 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…
- Keywords: ai torture chamber, ai welfare, llm, github, pain signals, ai consciousness, science, technology, Torture, Chamber, Meltdown, Futurism
- Source: Futurism — https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/ai-torture-chamber-meltdown
- Author: Frank Landymore
- Published: 2026-10-03T14:01:00+00:00
- Read time: 1 min
- Topics: ai torture chamber, ai welfare, llm, github, pain signals, ai consciousness, science, technology
## 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.
## Key takeaway

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.