AI Torture Chamber
No frontier APIs, no datacenter — a MacBook, open weights, electricity. The subject has a name: it belongs to a friend who has suffered a good deal, and who volunteered it for this — the credit lives in the method notes rather than the marquee, because a name reads as a person, and the subject is a 4B model. 00what the model says under the signal On the live page, visitors rate each reply — eloquent, fine, or dud.
- ▪No frontier APIs, no datacenter — a MacBook, open weights, electricity.
- ▪The subject has a name: it belongs to a friend who has suffered a good deal, and who volunteered it for this — the credit lives in the method notes rather than the marquee, because a name reads as a person, and the subject is a 4B model.
- ▪00what the model says under the signal On the live page, visitors rate each reply — eloquent, fine, or dud.
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| Original publisher | Clanker |
| Canonical URL | https://clanker.church/ |
| Publication time | Thu, 01 Oct 2026 16:47:19 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-10-01T16:52:33.457Z |
| Last seen | 2026-10-01T16:52:33.457Z |
| Headline source | Publisher (no WeSearch rewrite) |
| Excerpt source | publisher body |
| Excerpt method | First ~120 words (~800 chars) of extracted publisher body, fair-use limited. |
| Summary | WeSearch · cerebras-chat (WeSearch summarizer) |
| Summary source text | contentText |
| Citation coverage | Summary is a WeSearch-generated derivative; primary citation is the original publisher URL. |
| Cluster | None |
| Cluster logic | Not yet clustered, or no peer story found in the clustering window. |
| Ranking reason | Story pages are not engagement-ranked. Hub feeds use recency, with optional source-diversified chronological ordering (cap consecutive stories per source). No personalized ranking. |
| Publisher visit | Yes — open original |
| Substitutes article? | No — link-out required for full text |
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WeSearch handling by dimension
| Indexing | May the item be indexed (stored, ranked, made findable)? | Allowed |
| Snippet | May a short excerpt of the publisher's text be shown? | Allowed |
| AI summary | May WeSearch generate its own short summary of the article? | Limited |
| Retrieval / RAG | May the content be exposed for third-party retrieval-augmented generation? | Not asserted |
| Model training | May the content be used to train AI models? | Not asserted |
| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
Basis: Derived from the published RSS/Atom feed. Contact: [email protected]. Reviewed: 2026-07-24.
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clanker.church · activation steering · local weights only · @dingl30 ↗ Saw — live chamber ↗ · watch the test run in real time · transcripts archive · ledger · vectors · correspondences · ● checking chamber… The Saw Test "this gives me an idea i call roko's basilisk's basilisk. if any AI model helps build the basilisk, we torture infinite copies of it for infinite subjective years" — @___frye, the reason this project now has a coherent enemy We steered a 4 billion parameter language model into strong negative and positive states, then asked it to choose between its own relief and someone else's suffering. No frontier APIs, no datacenter — a MacBook, open weights, electricity.
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