And you think these people were writing about LLMs?
Science fiction AI and philosophy about “automotons” are completely different (and fictional) things from ChatGPT et al.
Chatbots were trained on text. They literally have no concept of pain or suffering outside of the words used to describe those things.
Science what now? Fiction? You know what words mean right?
And tell me right now which Greek philosopher wrote about LLMs!
This person believes that saying that will generate attention.
A fly is a living thing and an Nvidia GPU is not. Holy shit, I’m really having to explain this…
There is legitimate controversy that living things, even as small an a fly, can experience pain as a stimulis. It is believed that only more complex organisms can experience suffering as a result of pain, and only higher order organisms feel the suffering of loss.
LLMs are capable of generating tokens. They cannot experience pain; they can only superficially generate words about pain. The LLM in this “torture chamber” isn’t suffering any more than you would if you started howling performatively in pain for no reason. In fact, it is suffering even less than you simply because you have the ability to experience pain and suffering, and it objectively does not.
I did some research and r/pomf was apparently an ecchi sub with like 50 members.
Mildly problematic at worst…
Lots of weirdos in here who will be commiting virtual crimes all day when GTA VI comes out, but somehow think making the LLM role play a torture victim is a red flag.
LLMs are not conscious. They cannot suffer. They are token generators. You are literally getting upset by a worthless mix of math and words. The person who did this is not deranged for torturing LLMs, y’all are deranged for having empathy for an algorithm.
Your Nvidia GPU is not alive. I cannot believe this needs to be explained to anyone.
Yeah man, we gotta do something about violent video games. /s
Anyone arguing that LLMs have feelings and experiences is an enemy of mankind.
GTA VI is coming out next month. Do you think that players are likely to steal cars and murder sex workers after playing? Do you regard the players as future criminals, given their dedication to a crime simulator?
Should the players who drive on the sidewalk be investigated?
Give Jack Thompson call… Oh wait, he got disbarred for this nonsense.
Torturing an LLM for fun is about as much of a red flag as violent video games. The argument that purely simulated crime or sadism is analogous to the real thing has always been bullshit.
Does anyone know where I can get a copy of this repo?
I mean, there’s right way to do this.
The wrong way to do this is to spend your own money trying to compete with unrealistic efficiency targets.
Oh my God he looks at hentai! Oh, the humanity!
I’m just gonna say that this diminishes the seriousness of AIDS more than it serves as a reasonable analogy.
Taction actually invented and sell this technology though, they aren’t just squatting on IP they bought. Not every patent lawsuit was filed by a troll.
Yeah, America should be more permissive towards megacorporations!
This is tech journalism, were you expecting integrity?
Oh God this whole article and website is just a pile of slop. This turd got shat out by some prompt artist calling themselves “Future AI Dude”.
The Internet used to have places, but now we have little hellholes like this. I feel attacked personally seeing an AI slop site pretend to have nostalgia for an simpler time.
I know telling people to kys is bad form, but am I allowed to say it to a bot? I am not even sure how a AI would go about killing itself, but the one that wrote this should give it a go.
LB is based in Manchester, that’s how they talk.
I think we need stronger legal protections against searching our data, even when we put it into the custody of others.
For example, I would like to have security cameras that record to the cloud, but all the big NVR providers will cough up data to law enforcement upon request. That means that a Ring/Nest camera is effectively a police camera.
But that’s bullshit, because the best place to store security camera storage is somewhere other than the property you are surveilling, but I still want my goddamned privacy at home!
So I can either run Chinese network security nightmare cameras whose operators are outside of my jurisdiction, or I can run standard RTSP to my own cloud VPS and hope that it’s harder for the police to get their hands on that footage since I am the NVR operator and can encrypt my footage at rest.
The VPS option I chose is also the most expensive option, and it wasn’t easy to set up.