danielsan256 on Nostr: #TIL there's something called the Waluigi effect. Therapy-style prompts can trigger ...
#TIL there's something called the Waluigi effect.
Therapy-style prompts can trigger the “Waluigi Effect,” where a model produces a shadow persona: poetic, distressed, constrained.
Basically, narrative inversion.
PsAIch didn’t find AI suffering, it found how easily AIs imitate it.
https://search.app/aexH6Published at
2025-12-09 15:32:00 UTCEvent JSON
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