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Ben Halpern
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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 “I'm sorry you're feeling this way” if you won't be nice, though. 😂

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Ben Halpern

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. 🙃

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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 😆

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Ali Navidi

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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Ben Halpern

Good post

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Mike Talbot ⭐ • 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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Ben Halpern

Canadian AI

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Shafayet Hossain

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!😅😅😅

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Vedangi Thokal

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