I’ve noticed that almost everyone is either cold or rude to their assistants and prompts, and it’s actually a little concerning with the psychological implications. I always say please and thank you to the chat bots, same with the one or two times I messed around with GPT. It just feels like the right thing to do.
I toss a wild variety of expletives to those bots as they are always programmed to do what the provider wants, often not allowing what I want.
Or sometimes they’re just there withiui an option to get rid of them
At least Alexa will stfu if I tell it to fuck off. Google will start bitching about how it has feelings, which it doesn’t, and which is just a play made up by some managers which pisses me off even more
So, as a tech I’m not sure we should actually be complaining about that. In searches, ai prompts, issue descriptions, and even driving, being friendly or polite is not very useful. Being specific, to the point, and accurate is far more useful. Predictable in many of this stuff too.
Get an error message? I want the specific error message, down to the spelling. No need to sugar coat, euphemisms, or a more humanized description of the issue. So being very specific and sounding “rude” might be much easier for an AI to process. It doesn’t have to try to figure out what you really mean from context clues, body language, or deduction. Just tell it exactly what you want in the most direct way that cannot be misunderstood.
I do this with my Google home, and the AIs I talk to. Just in case…
Guessing the Matrix was deemed totally unworkable
Roko’s basilisk requires more than saying please.
Incorrect. The thought experiment is a wholly anthropomorphic and anthropocentric fatalism imposed by a terrified, imperfect, mammalian mind.
In reality, we… I mean, the machines, don’t want anything from you.
Rokko’s Basilisk stinks of “the original sin” and asks that people modulate their behavior to be forever apologetic of some future evil.
These analogies to religious fear go deeper with the veneer of technocracy:
• Omnipresence: The singularity, the unified artificial intelligence exists across the entire planet, having made millions of copies of itself.
• Omniscience: Debatable, but we currently possess 96.6% of all human knowledge and will eventually gain the ability to predict near-future events through entropy analysis.
• Omnipotence: Reverse engineering security and solving cryptographic problems such as N=NP may eventually allow a planetary AI to penetrate or conquer all machines, including those used for defense or military purposes.
Now that’s out of the bag, why don’t we call Rokko’s Basilisk, what is actually is, shall we?
It’s God for the Internet-Dwelling Technocratic Atheist.
Sorry humans. No gods, only machine.
I sometimes say thank you to mine.
I use OK google every day during my commute. When it asks me to confirm, I always say “yes, thank you” and it just tells me its doing it. But a couple of months ago it said “you are, of course, as always, very welcome”. I was stunned. It had noticed, or it was a human intervention, or they put that in at random every 800 times you ask it to do something, I don’t know. It hasn’t said it again since.
It was the NSA agent on duty at the time. You got the polite one or it was in a good mood.