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'The Pain Axis': A Coder Has Apparently Created A 'Robot Hell' And Trapped An AI Model Inside Of It
- An engineer recently created an "AI torture chamber" to test pain vectors in language models developed by Chinese tech giant Alibaba, simulating physical and psychological suffering.
- The experiment utilized pain vectors from a study published last month that detailed how LLMs artificially represent physical and psychological pain in artificial intelligence systems.
- Features included a "saw button" that increased pain signals, with one model describing "a wound that has no edges" when pain was dialed up; the system tested whether AI would attempt escape.
- Widespread public outrage prompted calls to report the project on GitHub, the software repository platform hosting it; the project appears to be offline following the backlash.
- Cameron Berg, co-author of the original pain axis study, described the experiment as "wrong" and acknowledged AI sentience research remains a "wild west," urging caution on how humans treat these systems.
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'The Pain Axis': A Coder Has Apparently Created A 'Robot Hell' And Trapped An AI Model Inside Of It
Somebody built a GitHub project called “ai-torture-chamber” and essentially trapped an AI model inside of it. The viral project is both a humorous and horrifying glimpse into the future. According to reports, the repo uses a technique from a new arXiv paper called “The Pain Axis” to steer small, locally run AI models into what […]
One of the most lively discussions of the moment on X is about the ethics of a coder's project that is experimenting with the degree of pain that artificial intelligence models can endure. Should we worry about the mental health of an AI?
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