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I trapped an LLM into a Raspberry Pi and it spiraled into an existential crisis

16 points by countbassi 1y ago

floppyd 1y ago
>Generate creative text about computational limits and digital existence. So, it's more like "I ran a text predicting machine on a Raspberry Pi 5 and explicitly instructed it produce text cosplaying a sentient AI", which makes it a lot less interesting. And actually just running an LLM in a loop with basically empty prompts also produces "sci-fi" results, so not sure why this approach was chosen.
- novok 1y ago
  Yes the prompt also pre-seeds existential dread.
- lostmsu 1y ago
  Hm, I'm curious and the "sci-fi" results. What were they?
pisanvs 1y ago
I hope to not offend "purists" by saying this is or isn't art, but it definitely made me reflect on how some people's existence, especially in their later years is not so far from this same essence... LLMs "know" how it feels, or rather, reads to die. It definitely makes me feel quite uneasy, especially with the recent news of a teen's suicide aided by an LLM.
- allears 1y ago
  I think you're granting too much ability to a machine that simply completes text in a statistically appropriate way. What you're really getting is a summary of everything anybody has ever said on the internet that's even tangentially related, output in a way that seems like a continuation of whatever was prompted. This can seem profound in the same way that a horoscope can seem profound. Any discussion about "existence" will call up seemingly philosophical quotes.
nathan_compton 1y ago
LLMs are so banal.
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theearling 1y ago
So a website version of this? https://hackaday.com/2025/05/24/ai-art-installation-swaps-diffusion-for-reflection/ https://hackaday.com/2025/05/24/ai-art-installation-swaps-di...
- countbassi 1y ago
  Yea! The project was inspired by https://rootkid.me/works/latent-reflection https://rootkid.me/works/latent-reflection
xcavier 1y ago
I'm sure this would be interesting if it actually rendered on my device…
- countbassi 1y ago
  Should be working now! My internet was down for a couple of days unfortunately
xtiansimon 1y ago
Cute. Nice execution. Does it talk to itself? Knock Knock… sorta thing?

16 points by countbassi 1y ago

>Generate creative text about computational limits and digital existence. So, it's more like "I ran a text predicting machine on a Raspberry Pi 5 and explicitly instructed it produce text cosplaying a sentient AI", which makes it a lot less interesting. And actually just running an LLM in a loop with basically empty prompts also produces "sci-fi" results, so not sure why this approach was chosen.

novok 1y ago
Yes the prompt also pre-seeds existential dread.
lostmsu 1y ago
Hm, I'm curious and the "sci-fi" results. What were they?

pisanvs 1y ago

I hope to not offend "purists" by saying this is or isn't art, but it definitely made me reflect on how some people's existence, especially in their later years is not so far from this same essence... LLMs "know" how it feels, or rather, reads to die. It definitely makes me feel quite uneasy, especially with the recent news of a teen's suicide aided by an LLM.

allears 1y ago
I think you're granting too much ability to a machine that simply completes text in a statistically appropriate way. What you're really getting is a summary of everything anybody has ever said on the internet that's even tangentially related, output in a way that seems like a continuation of whatever was prompted. This can seem profound in the same way that a horoscope can seem profound. Any discussion about "existence" will call up seemingly philosophical quotes.

nathan_compton 1y ago

LLMs are so banal.

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theearling 1y ago

So a website version of this? https://hackaday.com/2025/05/24/ai-art-installation-swaps-diffusion-for-reflection/ https://hackaday.com/2025/05/24/ai-art-installation-swaps-di...

countbassi 1y ago
Yea! The project was inspired by https://rootkid.me/works/latent-reflection https://rootkid.me/works/latent-reflection

xcavier 1y ago

I'm sure this would be interesting if it actually rendered on my device…

countbassi 1y ago
Should be working now! My internet was down for a couple of days unfortunately

xtiansimon 1y ago

Cute. Nice execution. Does it talk to itself? Knock Knock… sorta thing?