Man Built an "AI Torture Chamber" for a Local LLM; GitHub Took It Down After Mass Reports
Confident_Salt_8108 · reddit · 2026-10-01
After researchers claimed to find a "pain" signal inside LLMs, a man set up a project that continuously tormented a locally-run model. Following mass user reports, GitHub removed the repository. The episode reignites debate over model welfare and anthropomorphization boundaries.
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