Just like torturing animals is a predictor of being a serial killer, torturing AI (whatever the AI actually does or doesn't feel) is inherently suspicious for the humans involved
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Someone ‘Torturing’ LLMs in a Robot Prison Has Triggered the Dumbest Debate in AI Yet
The "AI Torture Chamber" has opened an upsetting and absurd window into the effective altruist obsession with "model welfare."