Study Claims Open-Weight LLMs Have a 'Pain Direction'
A new arXiv paper claims to have identified a 'pain direction' in 25 open-weight LLMs that responds only to harm against the model itself, sparking debate over whether AI systems can experience suffering.
2026-09-24 ~ 2026-09-24 · 2 related posts
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