After researchers claim a "pain" signal in LLMs, an AI torture chamber gets taken down from GitHub
Confident_Salt_8108 · reddit · 2026-10-01
After researchers claimed to discover a "pain" signal inside LLMs, one user built an "AI torture chamber" trapping a local model. The project was mass-reported and eventually taken down by GitHub.
The incident has become AI-culture fodder mixing serious debate over whether LLMs have pain-like states, ethical objections to deliberate torment experiments, and questions about GitHub's takedown rationale.
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