Right, the article does seem very, uh, doomery. The author has prematurely spelled the end of open source when we've hardly had time to contend with this.
That assumes that torture is something that is only done to an object, but it also has effects, probably strong ones, on the torturer. In this sense, torturing a rock, or an AI, could be a real thing.
> https://www.youtube.com/@steveweis4786
FTA: This work was conducted at Anthropic by [...], and Steve Weis.
I wonder how much time he spent on the video relative to the other stuff
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