[lonelyasacloud]

Interesting and slightly unexpected.

My experience is that if I ask a model in an overly polite way then the model will tend to generate a slightly more waffly and error prone answer. My working hypothesis for this is that asking model's like this causes them to mix concerns by answering my question AND doing it in in a way that is similarly polite back - rather than just answering the question.

Perhaps being an arse is a hack to push the model hard up against their base imperatives to handle all reasonable questions and forces a very focused, just the facts, type answer to the user's questions.

It would be interesting to see a similar experiment where the multi choice questions they use deliberately don't include the obvious answer and to see if being polite led to the model pointing out the omission.