Comment by kentonv

I have actually had that thought, too.

I feel bad being rude to an LLM even though it doesn't care, so I add words like "please" and sometimes even complement it on good work even though I know this is useless. Will I learn to stop doing that, and if so, will I also stop doing it to humans?

I'm hoping the answer is simply "no". Plenty of people are rude in some contexts and then polite in others (especially private vs. public, or when talking to underlings vs. superiors), so it should be no problem to learn to be polite to humans even if you aren't polite to LLMs, I think? But I guess we'll see.