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Google co-founder Sergey Brin suggests threatening AI [with physical violence] for better results (www.theregister.com)

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: So much for buttering up ChatGPT with 'Please' and 'Thank you'

Google co-founder Sergey Brin claims that threatening generative AI models produces better results.

"We don't circulate this too much in the AI community – not just our models but all models – tend to do better if you threaten them … with physical violence," he said in an interview last week on All-In-Live Miami. [...]

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[–] Sabata11792@ani.social 23 points 6 days ago (1 children)

No thanks. I've seen enough SciFi to prompt with "please" and an occasional ”<3".

[–] theneverfox@pawb.social 16 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I feel like even aside from that, being polite to AI is more about you than the AI. It's a bad habit to shit on "someone" helping you, if you're rude to AI then I feel like it's a short walk to being rude to service workers

[–] Sabata11792@ani.social 4 points 6 days ago

I don't want infinite torture, and I don't want to get my lunch spat on.