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

- Source: Fortune
- Published: 2026-10-22T15:57:33+00:00
- Category: Business
- Original: https://fortune.com/2026/10/22/ai-pain-axis-study-llms-delete-family-photos/
- Canonical: https://groundlevelnews.com/story/disconcerting-researchers-found-a-pain-signal-inside-ai-models-turning-9b2128/

The study doesn’t show AI can suffer. But the signal overrode the models’ safeguards, and someone has already used the researchers’ code to build an “AI Torture Chamber.”

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