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

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.

ROFL Yet they wouldn't care about the mental health of an actual human being, of course. Which is par for course for these deluded slop simps.

Waste of electricity.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

To be honest it is still very disturbing that someone made that. Who tf thinks up something like that?

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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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?

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

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

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