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Someone ‘Torturing’ LLMs in a Robot Prison Has Triggered the Dumbest Debate in AI Yet
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In a vacuum maybe, but as a way to troll AI nuts it's pretty funny.
But more practically speaking, this might be a method one would use to produce "misaligned" models. Which shouldn't be encouraged.
Are you suggesting these tortured LLMs will get... traumatised...? And turn into a fucking Batman villain?
Or does the paper this is based on -- which I admit I haven't read -- actually have some substance to that effect?
If you think this does anything to the models, you have not understood the difference between training and inference...
That implies any of the existing models are properly aligned
People (particularly western society) have a pretty awful history when it comes to jumping on excuses to dehumanize, and I feel like regardless of whether this target is sentient or not, we should probably not play into that impulse any further--for the sake of ourselves and also all of the humans we continue to dehumanize.