Something I keep noticing: people will apologise to a door they walk into, then fire clipped, irritated commands at the model that just saved them three hours. A friend and I wrote a short piece arguing that the interesting question isn’t whether the model deserves politeness, or whether it feels anything. The tone you use when nothing can hold you accountable is the tone you’re rehearsing. The counterargument I keep running into: this is anthropomorphism with extra steps, the politeness is wasted tokens, and treating a statistical text generator as a moral patient is exactly the confusion we should be avoiding. That’s a fair hit and I don’t have a clean answer to it. So, genuine question for this sub: is “be polite to the AI” a meaningful practice for the human, or is it sentimental noise that muddies how people understand what these systems actually are? Curious where people land, builders especially. submitted by /u/Rocinante95
Originally posted by u/Rocinante95 on r/ArtificialInteligence