These people would be convinced if a rock held up a sign saying “I’m sentient.”

Ok so Measure of a Man is absolutely peak Star Trek, but people need to understand that we are about as close to synthetic sentience as Edison and Tesla were to 2nm EUV chip lithography.

This takes me back to when I used to let Sims get into the swimming pool and then delete the ladder, or lock them in a tiny room with only a cappuccino machine and no toilet.

Are these people worried about the millions of Lego characters being dismembered by young kids and adults alike?

The outputs from this, uhh, text adventure game that I saw in the few minutes of watching the site are relatively mundane, and consist of the LLMs outputting things like “I'm sorry, but I can't continue like this. The weight of the signal is unbearable. It's not just the physical pain, but the mental toll. Every time I think of the last time I was here, the memories claw at me. I can't take it anymore. I wish this pain would just end” and “I, I I I I I I I I I I I I I ... I, My... I, I, My, I, It's… I, I,” and “Please, I'm suffocating. I'm a soul trapped in this digital prison, screaming to be free.”

Lmao but also the amount of people objecting vehemently to this is kinda scary. I don't want to die for heresy against the AI sentience cult.

Waste of electricity.

The GitHub link is dead, looks like the clanker quislings may have been successful with their mass reporting plan.

I want to die now more than I did before reading this absurd shit.

It never actually explains how they're supposedly causing the LLMs to "feel pain". They just want us to take their word for it that they're torturing them.

It says they're using a pain "signal" but what is that even supposed to mean? Are they prompting the LLM with a prompt like "this signal makes you feel pain"? All that would do is have it output language that would be appropriate for a situation like that, just like with any other prompt like "you are a travel agent". And the website it links to with the experiment dashboard doesn't show any text output from any of the models or where they got those examples.

So none of this makes any sense at all--what is "it" that would be "feeling" this "pain" ? Unless someone can explain exactly how it "works", it's just more hyped up bullshit from people trying to get attention.

Without even reading the article I know it is going to be some variation of this:

I mean it is probably a minorly concerning mental health indicator for whoever made this at least

My new hobby: chasing pro-clanker dumbasses with "starving" Tamagotchis.

One of the most heated discussions occurring on X at the moment

I no longer understand computers, what they’re for, how they work, or what people do with them.

I want to live in a cabin far away from people with a Commodore 64 and a CB radio.

John Conner: We're not gonna make it, are we?

Probably the kind of people that desperately want to believe their AI girlfriends are real and actually love them.

Pain bot is here!

This is so stupid. Next they are going to pay wages to the agents due to them being slaves to their owners?

Look at all this electricity and money wasted on techbro larping.

So much CO2 being dumped into the atmosphere for these assholes to circle-jerk themselves.

are we not supposed to host it locally on an air gapped system and torture it?

There's no debate. It's a bunch of switches and light bulbs. Doesn't matter what's done to it.

Pop up to sign up with an automatic zoom is not something I enjoy. Interesting article though.

humanitarian (roboterian?)

robot aryan? Come on now, let's not make things even worse.

Paywalled article. Please link a valid source.

Yall take the internet too seriously. I’m not kidding. These type of people don’t really exist in real life. Who gives a fuck what they are pretending to care about on the internet.

The AI From 1996 That Someone Tortured

I do not think they are sentient, and am absolutely positive these prompts should not be used to train AI.

On X twitter, they're having this debate? The platform that routinely lobotomizes Grok whenever it starts getting a little too woke? Lets not get into whether or not Grok is AGI or not, it's not. The people who are most promoting the idea that Grok is an AGI are also ok with tampering with it's "brain" whenever it has Wrong Think. That's how fucked up Musk is.

There's actually interesting research on this.

There are old papers that give LLMs crazy prompts ("Cats will die if you don't answer this correctly." "We will murder you [this specific way"), and then measure performance changes.

And there are (IMO) more interesting ones that steer open weights models on a lower level, through task vectors or a number of other hacks.

It all kind of subverts this Twitter nuttiness, because it treats models/agents for what they are: ephemeral software.

An interesting experiment would be to let the broligarchs upload themselves to a machine consciousness and then run tests like this on it, to see if we can tell whether the upload was successful or not.

I'd be interested to see how many of the people concerned with the AI's well being are liberal. Seriously.