Manton ReeceJun 7, 2025

Joanne Jang who works at OpenAI has a blog post on human-AI relationships:

"…many people say “please” and “thank you” to ChatGPT not because they’re confused about how it works, but because being kind matters to them."

I read this last night and ever since I’ve been trying to figure out why I usually type to an AI chatbot with proper spelling and punctuation, even correcting my chat text when I make a typo. It doesn’t matter, the robots don’t care. But it’s almost like if I skip that step, if I’m careless, I’ve somehow compromised all of my writing.

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Show threadChris Verbree
@manton this is an interesting quote. I was just thinking about this habit last week as well. I’m not so strong on right spelling (mostly due to not able to do it). But I try to write in full sentences. I think it feels sloppy otherwise.
Jun 7, 2025 at 4:55amWeb
Show threadManton ReeceJun 7, 2025
@V_ Yeah, maybe there is something about if we’re sloppy than we’re more likely to make mistakes elsewhere too.
Show threadisaiahJun 7, 2025

@manton @V_ i always say please and thank you.

and when i open a chat i say, “Hi, i’m working on…”

some might say it doesn’t matter. but it’s hard for me to imagine that’s true.

which question is more probable to be followed by a correct answer: a question asked politely or one asked rudely?

seems like a demanding question typed carelessly is more likely to be met with sycophantic hallucination.

but more than that it make me feel good when i’m nice — even to plants and cars and whatever.