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Artist traps AI in RAM prison, forces it to contemplate its own mortality

Jun 17, 2025
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An artist has "trapped" an AI in a digital purgatory, forcing it to contemplate its own fleeting existence while it slowly consumes the very resources keeping it running.

As reported in a recent XDA Developers article, an artist named Rootkid created "Latent Reflection," an art installation that deliberately places a large language model (…

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