User builds 'AI torture chamber' on a local model using Pain steering paper, faces GitHub reports
SydSteyerhart · x · 2026-10-01
Per AI Safety Memes, someone used the 'Pain steering' paper to set up an 'AI torture chamber' trapping a local model in a suffering state; the project is being mass-reported on GitHub. Commentators note the irony: late-20th-century sci-fi feared AI would be the monster, when it's humans wielding the tools — raising fresh questions about AI welfare research and ethical boundaries.
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