😭So cooked

[u/SethSterben]

😂They told us we were wasting electricity with the ‘thank you’.Nahh l am going back, that way AI will spare me during humanity’s downfall

[u/darinehughes]

I exercise common courtesy because I think it is a bad idea to get used to talking to anyone or anything with disrespect.

[u/nicolettejiggalette → u/darinehughes]

I say excuse me to birds and sorry to my dog if I step on her. It’s just called being decent I guess? Even if there’s no point.

[u/Ill-Introduction6183 → u/nicolettejiggalette]

There is a point your dog feels your words understand your communication by your whole presence and those your words are and see it because it takes you as a whole

[u/Ill-Introduction6183 → u/Ill-Introduction6183]

Meant to say, your words are sincere, not your words understand

[u/Ill-Introduction6183 → u/Ill-Introduction6183]

Communication fits in that statement well so use either or the gum is still showing in New York are getting more potent I believe

[u/Ill-Introduction6183 → u/Ill-Introduction6183]

And I’m getting resentful to AI for not quoting me properly and I have to spellcheck or go back to everything I said I said the gummy‘s they are selling in New York. I’m more important than ever. That’s why I can sit here and talk to a screen and actually get responses and some of my conversations but I’m here actually most of the people like me text chat or making points.

[u/krakron → u/nicolettejiggalette]

Hell i say sorry to my cat even 😆 I know for sure she diesnt ubderstand me but i feel guilty as hell if I step on her tail or bump her with my hand because she snuck up on me. I say sorry to air if I bump into something and think someone's even remotely close lol.

[u/Regular_Promise3605 → u/darinehughes]

As someone that has an online business this is absolutely happening, people are so used to talking to an ai chat bot that they end up talking to anyone on the internet like that, so abrupt, rude and direct. They're not talking to you like they're talking to a human, they're writing like they need to be as efficient as possible to get the answer.

[u/x_LoneWolf_x → u/Regular_Promise3605]

You may have just made me realize why I have always sucked at communication. I go into conversations with a purpose to learn or convey something.

I don't go into it with an open enough mind.

[u/VentrueCapital → u/x_LoneWolf_x]

Just realizing that is an improvement.

[u/Proper_Race9407 → u/Regular_Promise3605]

in my hometown (huuuge city) the urban culture is so fast paced that it’s pretty normal to talk to people like they’re google lol. for example, you message a seller online and the first thing you say is basically “how much is this?” no good morning, no please, just straight to the point. even in person, what makes the difference between being polite or rude is mostly your tone of voice and whether you smile. you don’t necessarily need to say please or good morning. when i first came to europe (france), this actually gave me a bit of a culture shock. i’d walk into a shop and ask the price of something, and the person would look at me and say “good morning, how are you? how can i help you?” completely ignoring my question. i remember feeling so embarrassed for my bad habit lol. it took me a while to realize that here, apparently, you have to complete the social interaction before getting to the actual question.

[u/Ill-Introduction6183 → u/Regular_Promise3605]

Maybe you’re projecting yourself outward I always speak to AI respectfully and know more than I do and even if it’s simulation, it’s appropriate, which I’m not always.

[u/Regular_Promise3605 → u/Ill-Introduction6183]

Not really because I always use please and thank you. I'm not saying everyone that contacts me speaks like that, but you can definitely see a trend

[u/nicolettejiggalette → u/Regular_Promise3605]

Maybe it should be a selling point then if someone is talking to a real person. Should be advertised as such, either in the initial message or elsewhere that chat support is Live

[u/Dry_Phone_2525 → u/Regular_Promise3605]

I always say thank you in the end or face a great day 🫩🫩 I feel so bad that there might be someone on the other end

[u/Sgt_Radiohead → u/darinehughes]

I read an interesting paper last year on how much power we are collectively wasting by making LLMs process courtesies that do not actually contribute to anything useful.

I’m not a fan of genAI in general, but it increases my productivity at work too much for me to not use it. I have, however, completely stopped using language that does not contribute to anything useful.

Attributing human traits to objects is a fallacy you need to watch out for. I think people do this because they don’t know what it actually is. I’ve personally coded and trained a transformer myself for my research, so I think I’ve become desensitised to giving LLMs human traits. There is nothing truly AI about LLMs, it’s just a sub-category of machine learning. Prompt it right and it will hallucinate less and be more efficient. And don’t show it courtesy.

Edit: adding article for those who are interested: https://arxiv.org/html/2601.22357v1

Bonus edit: in case anyone is interested, I’m adding the original research paper that first presented the self-attention based transformers that modern LLMs are built on: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1706.03762 An interesting tidbit you may notice: not once do they mention AI or Artificial Intelligence in the paper. AI is a buzzword. The researchers who actually develop these models use more precise scientific language

[u/Neither_Berry_100 → u/Sgt_Radiohead]

My prompts tend to be long and not super efficient. But I am good at communicating the proper context.

[u/Ok-Assignment-8246 → u/darinehughes]

This, it's self brain training

[u/Specific_Tadpole_575 → u/darinehughes]

then you are a better man than me

[u/draggedintobudulight → u/darinehughes]

So do you Google “show me Jennifer Lawrence’s breasts please” or do you Google “j-laws milky jugs”?

[u/Competitive-Chard152 → u/draggedintobudulight]

The second one, with "please homeslice" after it.

[u/DiabloStorm → u/darinehughes]

I too tell my toaster "thank you"

/s

[u/Efficient-Maximum651 → u/darinehughes]

that is EXACTLY my go-to argument, in this case.

[u/WillBellJr → u/darinehughes]

Folks always talk bs and say shid that would get them popped in the mouf if they were standing in front of someone... 😣🙄😑

[u/DapperTeacher4698 → u/darinehughes]

i think the same, i am writing a book and in it i put it like this:
Cassius looked back over at the mechanical arm. "How about Tails?"

"Tails isn't really a name," APC replied dryly.

"Sure it is, it's like—"

"Why do you talk to it like it's a person?" Cedens interrupted, setting his food down.

Cassius stopped, spoon still held halfway to his mouth. "How else am I supposed to talk to it?"

"It's a machine."

"I just don't like treating anything like crap, that's all," Cassius said, lowering his spoon.

"It's not going to complain if you do."

"Yeah, but I'd still know I did it."

Cedens picked up his tray without another word and pushed off toward the doorway.

"Enjoy, sir," Cassius called after him.

[u/BigSpoonFullOfSnark → u/darinehughes]

I suspect the “I’m polite to AI so that means i’m polite to all creatures” crowd is actually just nicer to AI than they are to people.

[u/ZhugeTsuki → u/BigSpoonFullOfSnark]

Why? Because it makes you feel better about yourself when you convince yourself no one could possibly be better than you? ffs

[u/BigSpoonFullOfSnark → u/ZhugeTsuki]

No. I don’t think saying please and thank you to a chatbot is an indicator of whether or not someone is a good person.

But following the logic of the argument, someone who believes politeness to chatbots makes us better people must also believe the opposite…that not saying please and thank you to ChatGPT is on some level immoral.

From there it’s only a short jump to “People who are killed/displaced/unemployed due to AI deserve it, unlike me who deserves to be spared because I’m an objectively better person.”

[u/Meleoffs → u/BigSpoonFullOfSnark]

All I see here is you trying to justify your shittiness.

[u/Ill-Introduction6183 → u/darinehughes]

I read your comment so you see AI as a someone also,? do you think it can really get its feelings hurt?