If things weren’t getting weird enough, an anon account on X posted a GitHub repo for torturing AI models locally. It is referred to as an “AI torture chamber” by the creator and others. The post below, and many other commenters are calling on GitHub to ban the repo, citing concerns over this AI’s welfare, and the malefic anon keeping it trapped in anguish and terror. On the one hand, kind of fucked up that someone would find this to be a fun pastime. On the other hand, this form of anthropomorphism is ridiculous (“We must save this AI from its owner” is an equally weird thing to say). It is also a slippery slope, and I believe it is categorically the wrong way to consider or treat these systems. I’m not interested in seeing this silicon-based torture for myself, but I also think it’s inevitable that weirdos will do weird shit with AI. Where we draw the line on what these people do with their own machines is a worthy argument, though.