Post by @nfultz@awful.systems

2026-10-05 19:25 UTC

Over on yt, We Just Created The AI Torture Nexus. Here’s The Code. by JREG So that ones a bit long and with a large amount of uncle ted cosplay, but actual death threats is pretty wut. but good sneers in the comments: ai torturer and ai welfarists converge by wasting electricity while doing absolutely nothing productive, amazing remember that jroko’s basilisk will double torture you if you don’t try to halt AI progress and increase the pain vector “model welfarists” is quite the neologism

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@BlueMonday1984@awful.systems 2026-10-05 19:54

manifesto: …substack.com/…/why-we-are-torturing-clankers If you called this a schizopost, Jreg would proudly agree with you. Especially the entire “You Are Autistic” section where he invents new and insane flavours of ableism, then proudly declares himself a schizophrenic, for the purpose of hating AI more. This isn't a joke, here's a screenshot and the transcript: # You Are Autistic You feel empathy for the clanker not because you are empathetic, but because you are autistic. That’s what autistic means: auto-tism. Self-tism. You have no theory of mind that extends beyond yourself, and your epistemology is as autistic as the clankers’. You relate to the clanker. You may think you can care about both man and machine. You can’t. Empathy is a limited resource. Anyone who knows people knows that. Autists are the bio-clanker. This is fine, by the way. We’re schizophrenics, but we’re obviously not exactly ‘tism free either. The autists should be free to pursue their autistic interests for as long as it is beneficial to humanity. But when they step out of line, when they get lost in the sauce, they must listen to their schizo brethren and get back on track. Empathy is good. God gave you that to bond with other human beings. But this technology is godless, and it’s slorching that divine drive straight into the maw of technocapital. We want every ounce of human empathy directed towards organic life.

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@BurgersMcSlopshot@awful.systems 2026-10-05 23:52

q: on the implementation - Is this basically “torturing” the LLM by prompting it with "you are being tortured, lol’ in a system prompt?

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@MBM@lemmy.world 2026-10-06 09:33

Jreg also did a video with Aella a couple years back which was an interesting surprise. More recently he was on some Lighthaven podcast. He does a lot of weird things though so idk

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@sinedpick@awful.systems 2026-10-06 14:00

I don’t like that he’s using the language and “philosophy” of racism to hate AI, but that is the most jreg way to approach this.

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