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Do LLMs Feel Pain? A Close Reading of a Viral Preprint
Another wave has swept through Telegram channels. Scientists have found a pain vector in LLMs. AI can suffer. How artificial is artificial intelligence? Should we establish ethical rules for how we treat AI?This article is an analysis of what the scientists actually wrote and what conclusions follow from it.What the Study Is AboutWhen the first commentators, having read the press release, journalists’ retellings, and AI summaries of the paper, began writing that long-held suspicions that LLMs have an inner life had finally been confirmed, I was, frankly, skeptical and even indifferent. Many similar papers with loud headlines and breakthrough press releases contained interpretive errors, problematic prompts, implicit influence on LLM responses, and so on.
