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Fortune
Fortune
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Shae Lake

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

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Researchers say they have found a consistent internal signal that seems to function a little bit like pain does in biological beings inside 25 different AI models.

When they artificially amplified this “pain” signal in some of those models, the systems began choosing options they would otherwise almost never pick, including permanently deleting a user’s photos of their children.

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