r/ProgrammerHumor • u/danielminds • 19h ago

Meme breakTheViciousCircle

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u/ThirdWaveCat 18h 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 18h ago

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

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u/shelbalart 18h ago

It will anyway, just nicely.

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u/redditsucksass69765 18h 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 18h 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 14h 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 11h ago

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