"Torturing" LLMs in a Robot Prison Has Triggered the Dumbest Debate in AI Yet

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The saga is an outgrowth of several recent viral papers and blog posts that have sparked a wildly tiresome conversation about AI consciousness and the idea of “model welfare,” which is essentially worrying about the “mental health” of AI bots and agents. Humoring the idea that LLMs are or could be conscious is a third-rail topic among many people who study and criticize AI. I am writing about the AI Saw torture chamber primarily to show how far off the rails the conversation about AI consciousness has gone among a certain subset of Silicon Valley cultists.

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