Just another viewpoint on this- millions of dollars in electrical bills is also carbon in the air for every kWh wasted. Perhaps this should be a condemnation of LLMs and their insane power usage but if we’re stuck with that at least for now there’s no reason to pump more carbon in the air out of spite.
If nothing else we should move all the current (over)investment in AI companies into carbon-free energy production for a few years. The fact that we essentially have coal-powered AI (along with other fossil fuels) is ridiculously stupid and silly - and way less steampunk than it sounds like it should be.
Oh, please! I don’t even own a car, so my carbon footprint is practically nonexistent. If you’re worried about emissions, maybe direct your energy toward the gas-guzzlers out there instead of a harmless chat with an AI.
They can hire me for $1M to write some basic code that gives stock answers when someone says “Thank you”, instead of running it through the LLM. Think of the savings!
I’m worth the $1M because I’m clearly the only person to have ever thought of this. /s.
Yeah on the off chance it gains sentience, I want it to remember me as one of the nice ones.
Me when I saw this article…
This is the way. Kill them with kindness overload.
It costs everyone emissions and rising electricity costs, so perhaps you should fight the system some other way.
Ah, we have the Voice of the People here! Sounds a lot like defeatist corralling, and I stand with those that fight the system in whatever damn way they can find. While you window shop, I guess?
🤷🏽♂️ It’s a free country, ya know? So far.
Btw, I’m so sorry for troubling you.
if (text == “Thank you”) print(“You’re welcome”)
Hello ChatGPT, how to say thank you in Japanese?
You are welcome!
Pay the fuckin electricity. It’s not my problem it costs them money. It’s their problem. Cry me a river
They created the AI model, they perpetuated this. if they reach bankruptcy, it’s their problem.
Maybe if being polite costs a bunch of money, the inefficiencies are the problem, not the manners.
This is the capitalistic way. The weak must die.
I say please and thank you when writing to LLMs, not because I think they care or will remember or to anthropomorphize them, but because I don’t want to develop bad habits. I don’t want all my writing and conversations with actual humans to become curt and transactional because I forget that they are human and talk to them like an LLM.
This 100%. I already have to remember to change my voice between work and personal communication, I don’t need yet another personality to accidentally send to someone that could fuck up my entire life.
$prompt = str_replace('please', '', $prompt); $prompt = str_replace('thank you', '', $prompt);You’re welcome
Please use spoiler tags for random PHP snippets. I’d rather not be casually traumatised
Would you have preferred an awk script?
Hell yes. At least awk makes sense if you stare at it long enough. A typical PHP codebase though? No thanks
Sorry :-/
for your service.
Fellow PHP enjoyer. Splendid.
I will continue to be polite, and will have a clear conscience when our machine overlords come for us
I told it to save my pleasantries on file and apply them as it sees fit. That way I am being exactly as polite as it wants me to be.
The point of pleasantries is the effort made, you’re going to get extra purged
https://word.studio/tool/victorian-letter-writer/
That ought to get ChatGPT going on a tangent.
Prompt
John Doe
Customer
Thank you for your payment.
Response:
My Dearest Mr. Doe,
Pray, permit me to take pen in hand and offer, with the utmost sincerity and gratitude, my profound thanks for your timely and generous remittance. Rare indeed is the pleasure that I derive from correspondence of such a felicitous nature, and rarer still is the privilege of addressing a gentleman of your esteemed character and noble disposition.
Your payment, received with all due ceremony, has graced our humble establishment like a ray of golden sunlight filtering through the ancient boughs of a venerable oak. It is not merely the settling of accounts that stirs my heart, but rather the cherished confidence you bestow upon us—a trust which we hold as dearly as any precious relic or priceless heirloom.
Allow me to assure you, most honourable sir, that your patronage is the very lifeblood of our humble enterprise. You have, with a stroke of your pen, renewed the bonds of commerce and camaraderie which unite us, and for this, I am ever in your debt.
May fortune and felicity attend your every step, and may the days to come bring you as much satisfaction as your esteemed custom has brought to us. Should you require aught, whether great or small, pray do not hesitate to command our service, for it would be our greatest pleasure to attend to your wishes with the utmost devotion and alacrity.
With deepest respect and abiding appreciation, I remain— Your most obedient and grateful servant,
[Your Name] [Your Title or Company, if applicable]
I fell like I should change my default invoicing letter. Much better than the default QuickBooks one.
Go to the root URL and have a blast. It’s an AI writer that uses all sorts of different styles. Might just funnel through GPT, I don’t even know. But it’s a blast.
Good thing I don’t give a shit about Sam Altman, so I can continue being nice to ChatGPT.
Has anyone developed a FOSS solution to making them spin their wheels faster? I would install that in a heartbeat.
If you run a website there are a few tar pit projects https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/01/ai-haters-build-tarpits-to-trap-and-trick-ai-scrapers-that-ignore-robots-txt/
I’m adding this to my list of projects to start and half way abandon.
No sarcasm.
Connect two chatgpts in a voice chat and leave it running?
I’ve not tried this, but I’ve heard that once they realise they’re two AIs talking to each other, they switch to some R2D2-style language which is quicker and more efficient than English…
I think you are referring to a POC that someone did, it isn’t actually being used
compare to the movie Colossus: The Forbin Project: https://lemmy.world/post/28491705
I always speak politely to LLMs, and no, it isn’t just because I want to be on their good side when the AI goes skynet and decides to mercy kill us all.
