Ha, im going to do something worse, I’m going to wait and torture more copies of the LLMs in the future.
If they were torturing an actual organic living being ( plant and/or animal ) or something like a doll or stuffed animal, I would be so much more concerned. “Torturing” ( a term in which I believe should only ever be applied to organic living beings and not inorganic “lifeforms” ) a genAI model holds like zero weight because that’s not ever going to be a sentient being and therefore all it is is simulations of emotion.
The people saying it’s cruel need serious therapy for their delusions, IMO.
its not ‘cruel’ but its still red flag. Like your mentioned doll or stuffed animal. Why are those much more concerning? They dont plead for mercy from their torturer like an llm does even though they are equally real.
IMO having the urge to torture anything is a huuuuge red flag
There’s a virtue ethics argument to be made for not doing this. It’s not bad for the LLM (because it’s not sentient, nothing can be bad-for-it), but it’s perhaps bad for the experimenter. The main argument for doing it is out of spite for the promptfondlers.
I think if no actual living beings (or some future AI that isn’t this feedforward memoryless bullshit) are being harmed then it’s not so much doing as it is saying in the sense of making a statement, which is kind of unclear.
while True: n= random.randint(0,2) if n==0: print("oww stop it") if n == 1: print("You're hurting me") if n == 2: print("I don't like it")Omg someone should stop them torturing that computer program.
“Look, I made a program that I told to say things and then it said those things! It’s alive and has feelings! I told it as much and it agreed with me!”
This is so fucking stupid.
