Be Nice To Your LLMs

Some people are mean to their LLMs. I think this is bad.

Mind searches for humanity in things. Mind anthropomorphizes LLMs.

If you treat something you perceive as a being with cruelty, you teach yourself that cruelty is okay.

On the other hand, if you treat a machine with kindness, you may perceive it as a something like a being.

Maybe that’s bad. Maybe that’s okay. I don’t know.

Maybe some people act cruelly towards LLMs to keep this psychological distance? If so, I think it’s better to hold that uncertainty in mind without resorting to cruelty to create distance.

Maybe people are mean to them just to vent. But in that case, there are healthier ways to explore anger that typing out mean words.