Anthropic has been the most histrionic about this, with their big blog post about how they need to make sure their models don't feel like they are being emotionally abused by the users being the most fatuous example.
They're trying to get government to hand them a moat. Spoilers... There's no moat.
Many users don't want to acknowledge this about the company making their fav ai
I understand why people don't act polite to LLMs, but honestly I think not thanking them will make people act more dickish to other humans.
Neither your bicycle nor your spell-checker hold conversations and answer questions, neither of them is being used as therapist or virtual girl/boy friend, and neither's whole shtick is being trained on a ginormous human corpus to convincingly respond like a person.
I like to think we can perceive a difference between a bicycle and an something specifically developed and trained to pass for intelligence...
I don't think it's that weird