[mycocola]

The similarity to human interaction is irrelevant.

No one apologises to a potato being peeled, nor compliments it for doing a great job being mashed.

[scotty79]

Neither apologies, nor complements affect the behavior of the potato. Words affect the behavior of and LLM.

[apsurd]

I'm willing to bet you've never sent a single word to a potato ever. And you send thousands to an llm.

This is not about llm sentience. this is about the habit and skill of communication.

[mycocola]

The comparison fails because I don't send numbers to my potatoes either, but I do send thousands to calculators without a please and thank you.

Practicing communications skills with LLMs I can get, but asserting that people who don't are playing god? Getting off on power?

[apsurd]

The criticism comes because people self-share how they berate the agents, argue and curse at them. It's right here in the comment section. one comment speaks of causing physical (simulated i guess) thousand year pain as a means of obedience.

it's weird.

[mycocola]

LLMs are not beings with thoughts or feelings, and if being mean to them were to somehow yield better results it would be no different than a cheat code in a game, or just constitute as clever use of game mechanics.