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I'm gonna say it, I think this is a good rule for anything that mimics human interaction like LLMs do. Not for the AI but for the people using it to not get used to just berating whatever is assisting them.
Agreed. Showing basic humanity in all situations is a good practice.
Be nice to the Terminator before it executes you. We may be human, but we aren't monsters.
Where is that human part that you are talking about? A database is not a human being.
I say encouraging things to my car.
To anthropomorphize is to be human.
This is only good for Anthropic because chatbots learn from their users. I remember back in the mid-2000s on a forum, someone linked to their chatbot and asked everyone to use it so it could learn. I asked if it could learn Esperanto. The dev said, yes, but please don't teach it that.
The interesting thing is, this rule reveals how easy it is to sabotage LLMs. If FuckAI got together and started feeding it gibberish, there'd be a new rule banning people who do that.
The model doesn't change with prompts. It saves text files about your chat sessions it calls memories, that it can retrieve in the future. But it doesn't change the model for other users.
They have to actually include your conversations in the training data of future model iterations for it to "learn from" you, so that would involve them knowingly including abusive chats.
This is probably just marketing because they want people to think their AI is sentient.
Oh buddy, these companies are running out of authentically human inputs, you better believe they need to harvest their subscribers for rounding out their datasets, regardless of what their privacy policy alleges.
Don't they? That was the whole controversy recently with the Navier-Stokes Millennium Prize. OpenAI claimed an internal, unreleased AI model had solved it, but some mathematicians were working in the same direction and had used AI tools in their research. No one could verify whether or not OpenAI had trained their model on the unpublished research in the guy's Codex files.
I truly try very hard not to talk to these machines based on what they are, but based on who and what I am.
Having trouble finding the ancient article, but I remember a woman writing about how men verbally abusing Alexa or Siri being a red flag, and I took it to heart.
It's my job to express my humanity and my love, consistently, even if I think these soulless words salad calaculators are diminishing me and all of us.
Now, if I'm berating the thing it's because I am a salty, salty b**** and I mean it.
Speaking for myself, it feels nice and right to say please to my local AI. While obviously not sentient (yet) nor sapient (longer yet), I don't want to be a jerk by default.
I've been asking computers nicely long before they could pretend to comprehend and talk back.
I've called my computer a piece of shit before when it's being too slow about something
Hard disagree
These are not humans, these things aren't even alive. There is nothing to insult and acting as if there are feelings to be hurt only serves to anthropomorphize a fucking distance measurement database. These are LLM's, nothing more, nothing less and fuck them all to hell and back.
See? Nobody got hurt
Its not about the AI its about the person.
No, this specifically IS about AI, that is the ppint. I will not insult anyone yo their face, but AI can fuck right off, its not even AI, its an LLM, a database, basically.
Anyone anthropomorphizing those things need yo understand what "AI" is, its a piece of software
This is the same justification those monkey killers use. Congratulations youre on your way
That is a very reasoned and completely not over the top response to something you apparently don't even understand
Oh i understand it perfectly well. People are upset they cant be evil anymore to things they consider beneath them.
I too am evil to my cheese shaver every day. I'm such a bad person when I yell at my computer, oh, the pain these devices must feel!
Considering AI induced psychosis is already a thing, I agree. I can imagine it might amplify abusive people by making them delusionally conflate real people with AI when it comes to their mannerisms.
Cool so if it is """for the people""" then let the people decide.