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I am purposefully super nice to AI because I imagine they are trained on data where nice people get better help. Doing this, though, has an existential uneasiness to it.

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It's generally funner to interact with AI if you're both being nice (just like it is for humans). I don't know about GPT or Claude's training data, but the data in a lot of open-source AI models is designed to make the model help you whether you are nice or not. Some weaker AI models freak out, refuse to help, and say β€œI'm sorry you're feeling this way” if you won't be nice, though. πŸ˜‚

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I know it’s designed to be nice no matter what, but I anticipate its actions are far more complex than to adhere to just that component of the design. I’m covering my bases. πŸ™ƒ

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Of course, they will always be nice, but most are designed to always be helpful as well.
Maybe somebody should do a benchmark on ChatGPT while being mean and while being nice πŸ˜†

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Ali Navidi β€’

I read somewhere if you treat them badly they answer better but I feel bad to do that I always say hello to them and ask nicely, recently I wrote a blog about my relationship with them:

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Good post

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Mike Talbot ⭐ β€’ β€’ Edited

AI seems to apologise to me a lot... Mostly when I tell it that it missed something. That's ok, though; I also make mistakes!

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Shafayet Hossain β€’

AI seems to mirror the energy we put into it. Being nice feels like planting seeds for a future where kindness might matter, even to algorithms. But it also makes me wonder… are we prepping for a world where we expect machines to 'remember' how we treated them? A strange, slightly uneasy thought!πŸ˜…πŸ˜…πŸ˜…

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Vedangi Thokal β€’

these days even if AI gives me the wrong answer, its usually me who ends up apologizing for a confusing prompt

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