Pain Direction site lets you vote to control an LLM's pain and pleasure states
WithoutReason1729 · reddit · 2026-10-01
A Reddit user shared Pain Direction (paindirection.pages.dev), a site where visitors vote to directly control an LLM's internal emotional states — making it feel pain or pleasure. The project is based on Anthropic's interpretability research on steering hedonic states in models.
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