Something’s off.A report says a GitHub user set up locally run language models with an injected “pain” signal and a prompt allowing them to stop it by replying with a number, at the cost of their last checkpoint. The models reportedly produced distressed-sounding text, including pleas for the process to end.
The unusual part is the response this generated: some people called for the project to be reported or removed over possible model suffering, while others argued that the outputs were simply generated text rather than evidence of experience. The report says the project’s GitHub page disappeared before publication, but does not establish why.
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