[viccis]

Anthropic has been the most histrionic about this, with their big blog post about how they need to make sure their models don't feel like they are being emotionally abused by the users being the most fatuous example.

[slowmovintarget]

"This is obviously why only we can be trusted with operating these models, and require government legislation saying so."

They're trying to get government to hand them a moat. Spoilers... There's no moat.

[verdverm]

To me, Anthropic has done enough sketchy things to be on par with the players from Big Tech. They are not some new benevolent corporation backed by SV

Many users don't want to acknowledge this about the company making their fav ai

[SoftTalker]

I was taken aback when I recently noticed a co-worker thanking ChatGPT for its answer.

[beowulfey]

LLMs talk like people; there is nothing wrong with this. It's perfectly fine to be nice to something even if it isn't human. It's why we don't go around kicking dogs for fun.

I understand why people don't act polite to LLMs, but honestly I think not thanking them will make people act more dickish to other humans.

[bglazer]

I occasionally say please and thank you to ChatGPT for my own sake, not for the LLM's. They're sufficiently similar to humans that allowing myself to be a jerk subtly degrades myself and makes it more likely that I'm a jerk to real people.

[steveklabnik]

From a year ago https://www.vice.com/en/article/telling-chatgpt-please-and-t...

[layer8]

People have been thanking Siri back 15 years ago, it’s just a reflex.

[biophysboy]

I missed this - which blog post?

[viccis]

https://www.anthropic.com/research/exploring-model-welfare