To always thank ChatGPT?

[LassWithSass]

I use chatGPT quite a bit for my work, giving it lots of prompts to help me write quick and succinct reports. I always say please and thanks very much though - just feels rude not to. Also, I can’t help but think that in the future, when it’s way more advanced, it will remember who was polite and grateful and who wasn’t…

Some very lonely people will end up marrying their ai avatars. Some people just can’t understand it’s not conscious in the way a person in wirh likes and emotions

I don’t think that attitude is going to work. I wish AI didn’t exist but it’s here to stay - so we’d better learn to use it as a tool and make sure we stay ahead of the game.

I work in publishing, and I know there are lots of discussions afoot about its role in the process. Human creativity will always be valued but AI has a place in more mundane tasks, like proofreading. I’m a freelancer and I know I have to roll with the times - so I need to try and use AI to my advantage rather than pretending it’s not happening.

That's one of the tasks it is really good at.
However, you wouldn't use it in chat form for that, it would be integrated with your mailbox, so it can read and move the emails. And, if you are employed, that's something you typically can't decide on your own, it is something the company allows or not.

😅 brilliant

Proofreading? It lacks context.

No wonder some of the jobs I get that 'have already been proofread' are so shit if publishing professionals think CHATGPT is sufficient.

I do and say please

I am always asking Alexa the time, or to set an alarm etc. I thank her every time. DH thinks it's hilarious. My rationale is that if I don't, then I might get into a lazy habit of not thanking real people

Sure, it’s not good enough yet but it can pick up typos, style inconsistencies and repetition in a flash. It still needs a human overseeing though, for nuance and context as you say - for now.

It's interesting. I definitely notice a difference in "personality" between ChatGpt and Claude.

Claude can get a snippy and has very clear boundaries whereas ChatGpt is a bit easier to confuse.

But Claude is also really good at understanding emotional complexities. I recently asked each of them to help me write a response to an email from my stepmother.
Claude picked up on the dynamic of the relationship, a few passive aggressive lines and her emotional instability and gave me the perfect response and a few tips on how to deal with someone like her.

Chatgpt gave me a response that was simplistic and was just very much #bekind or "do you want me to write a stronger response?".

I try to limit my use of AI because I do think it will make us even more lazy and lacking in opinions and critical thinking, but this experiment was fascinating to me.

This. I think people are very confused about what AI actually is.

Not confused. It's not about the AI at all. It's purely about me and my habits. I will not get in the habit of barking orders at something.

Actually that's less of an issue with typing to chat, more of a thing when I'm asking google or siri to do something outloud. When I'm asking chat/claude/whatever to help me code I don't bother with the please/thanks

YABU. It's stupid to use ChatGPT for things you can do anyway - as in, research is showing it's literally making people stupider. But more than that there is a huge environmental cost to using generative AI, and adding in unnecessary pleasantries increases that burden. ChatGPT isn't some formless ether floating over your head. It is housed in data centres which require a huge amount of water-based cooling. Every time you add a redundant pleasantry you're adding to this environment cost.

I really wouldn’t want to read a report that was ai generated slop. I’d rather have a report written by an actual person who should have a command of the English language and knowledge in their subject. Grammatical errors are preferable to the drab crap it
comes out with.

I find that so bizarre. Alexa is a machine, telling it to do something is a million miles from interacting with a real person. Thanking a machine is very strange behaviour.

Oh yes, it's completely irrational. I just can't help it

It isn't true that AI wastes vast resources. Overall, it uses a lot but that's because zillions of instances are running at any moment.

OP, I thank it! I think it's much better for me to communicate politely. My 'caveman' brain doesn't know I'm talking to an inanimate object. AI can generate emotional responses from us; this means our brains relate to it as if it were a person. Treating people with contempt makes us nastier and less happy, and I want to maintain my mental equilibrium as far as I can.

I don’t use ChatGpt but I make the kids say please to Alexa!

Well you can't be that worried if you're actually teaching it how to do your work for you

I rarely use it, but since reading how thanks yous waste recoursces I now bulid a please and thank you into the original prompt! 😂

But I do think it's odd - I'll freely admit I know nothing about programming and how AI works, but I can't help but think it can't be that hard to build in some kind of system to autoreply to "thank you" with "you're welcome" withouth a need to involve AI?

Geoffrey Hinton who had a hand in the development of AI recommends training to be a plumber as a safe job -see diary of a ceo interview

Good call - from now on I’ll be saying ‘thanks in advance for your reply’ 😉

I share massive concerns about chatgpt as a 'therapist'. It's vert affirming. Every little thing you say ot agrees with - doesn't challenge, doesn't offer alternatives.

I use it for a very specific problem that's been ongoing for years and luckily, I am very self aware and although it's nice to hear chatgpt affirm and agred with everything I say, I know it's not helping me move forward.

It is stopping me from sending rambling late night texts when I shouldn't, though.....

@rabbitwoman
100%. I've already seen several posters saying they talk to ChatGPT because it listens to them better than their friends and family.

It doesn't listen. It flatters, affirms and confirms your biases. That's kind of the opposite of listening.

It's really bad for the environment if you make an extra communication with it just to say thanks, so maybe just include a please and thanks in advance along with your actual request.

Edit: I see someone has already suggested this.

I think it's a very human (but in this case misguided) need to help 'shape' something. As we keep hearing that large language models are 'trained', we confuse that with educating a child-like entity. And so with that in mind, who wouldn't want a polite AI, right? Especially us Brits. But it is in fact an IT system and it consumes an enormous amount of natural resources which in turn will damage the actual living world around us...
One of the risks that come with AI is the increasing level of emotional enmeshment on the part of its users. The new Wondery podcast Flesh and Code is a great one for anyone interested in that particular aspect.