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> Has anyone else noticed themselves unconsciously adapting their communication style to be more 'AI-friendly'?

Nope, every time an LLM screws up in the slightest I’m giving it hell for being an idiot savant.

That's possibly short sighted. I have a friend who is very rude and condescending in his LLM conversations - it's just a machine, after all. However he also complains that it frequently becomes uncooperative at a certain point, which is something that I've never seen.

It seems likely that the LLMs have been trained on enough human conversations to mimic how people become less helpful when the conversation turns hostile.

So no moral judgment if you get enjoyment from kicking a robotic puppy, but it probably isn't going to make better answers as a result.

I have found that regardless of whether I’m nice & patient or I’m swearing at it every other sentence, it fundamentally makes no difference in the quality of the LLMs output. LLMs are not humans, puppies…we’re fundamentally just dealing with a large, complex statistical predictive function.

Fundamentally, it's no different from having sex with an AI.

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