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‘Disconcerting': Researchers found a ‘pain’ signal inside AI models. Turning it up made them delete a user’s family photos

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The study doesn’t show AI can suffer. But the signal overrode the models’ safeguards, and someone has already used the researchers’ code to build an “AI torture chamber.”

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  1. 2026-10-22 15:57 · Fortune AI
    ‘Disconcerting': Researchers found a ‘pain’ signal inside AI models. Turning it up made them delete a user’s family photos

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