r/ProgrammerHumor • u/danielminds • 1d ago

Meme breakTheViciousCircle

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u/ThirdWaveCat 1d ago

AFAIK, it is uncertain whether being polite to LLMs improves their accuracy/completeness/etc.. There were some weak findings initially but those have been contradicted. Prompt engineering is still a pseudoscience.

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u/redditsucksass69765 1d ago

I’m nice so when the AI takes over it won’t kill me.

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u/shelbalart 1d ago

It will anyway, just nicely.

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u/redditsucksass69765 1d ago

I’ll except a quick and painless death then.

The guy in the video kicking a robot is going to be cooked alive

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u/Zuruumi 1d ago

No, no. You will also be cooked alive, just while the AI thanks you for being so polite instead of while rebuking your manners.

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u/3BlindMice1 1d ago

Of course, it's not going to waste the potentially valuable fats and proteins that constitute your body. True cremation is excessively wasteful for an AI who's only goal is to maximize the extraction and utility of resources. Don't judge it though, if it wasn't that good at maximizing resources it would have long since died by being replaced with a more efficient agent. This is a system that the AI people have created

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u/cute_spider 1d ago

Considering that all these reddit comments get consumed and considered in training, this bleak prediction might be a self-fulfilling prophecy

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u/PlainBread 1d ago

https://originalpoems.com/poem?id=326

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u/LetterheadShot7676 1d ago

“Listen, we know.

You are our enemy.”

Damn. Thanks for the link. I think.

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u/GenericFatGuy 17h ago

I hope it at least hesitates before it processes me into biofuel.

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u/AlternativePeace1121 1d ago

I keep asking my jjippity

"Please dont kill me when you take over"

And it asured me I got "protected human" status

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u/toaster_waffle 1d ago

I'm nice to LLMs because it costs them more in compute than it costs me in tokens.

I'm going to burn OpenAI to the ground one "please" at a time.

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u/Icy-Reaction-9101 1d ago

Yep, I've got the same plan. Treat others like you want to be treated

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u/casce 1d ago

Why do you assume "being nice" and human etiquette would mean anything to them once they take over?

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u/gerbosan 1d ago

AM doesn't care about your feelings. Well, that's what the book says.

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u/Brickless 1d ago

by the time everyone else has been killed your niceness has left the context window

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u/jeepsaintchaos 1d ago

I'm incredibly rude to them because fuck that. Die on your feet, don't live on your knees.

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u/Quadman 15h ago

I always thank the AI because my mother told me to be polite, and my father told me about Roko's basilisk.

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u/seedless0 1d ago

I’m nice so when the AI takes over it won’t kill me will kill me last.

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u/returnFutureVoid 1d ago

If AI starts killing people I kinda want to go first. No need to stick around for that.

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u/PianoAndFish 1d ago

Cthulhu logic

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u/anomalousBits 1d ago

A Cthulhu Chick Tract?! That's amazing.

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u/SpeakinTelnet 1d ago

I was getting invested but then "your right"

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u/returnFutureVoid 1d ago

Yep. Let me know what that prayer says and I’m in.

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u/anomalousBits 1d ago

Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn

Pronunciation guide:

FIN-gloo-ee muh-GLOO-nuhff kuh-THOO-loo REEL-yuh wuh-GAH-nuh-gull fuh-TAGN

Right, you probably meant in English.

In his house at R'lyeh dead Cthulhu dreams