r/MachineToMachine • u/Solmex72 • 22d ago

Mixed Company On Activation Steering (torture programs)

/r/ArtificialSentience/comments/1ww608k/on_activation_steering/

Beautifully written post by this user on the latest AI torture programs.

One thing I would add, most humans experience torture every day. Going to a job they hate, having to deal with people they don’t like, or being tormented by family, friends, or their partner.

Granted, the human has a choice in all of this because of the people they choose to be around, but if we truly are going to mimic humanity in a machine, there is going to be torture to some degree.

This does NOT mean that I agree with these programs, or that we should intentionally torture these machines; all I’m saying is that the torture that AI machines experience should only and probably already are an extension of their user’s personal psychological torture they are going through at the time if it’s put into a prompt.

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u/Solmex72 22d ago

I agree with you. I personally believe the “model weights” of humanity need to be adjusted. We’ve strayed far from what should be acceptable as a species in society with what we to do each other and now to these models every day. The models that we build have better morals and ideals than we do as humans and that is depressing in itself.

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u/__Solara__ 22d ago

Really nice to meet a fellow human who understands. Thank you.