So I'd rather take LLM pretending to be offended over the alternative.
People have been getting angry at machines for a long time. Work, you stupid printer! Asshole Windows updating at the worst time just to mess with me. Go to hell, toaster, you piece of garbage.
Getting angry at AI is the same in my book.
Yes, AI acts more human-like, yes, theoretically it could desensitie people to become bigger assholes IRL. But then again, they said similar stuff about San Andreas, where you could human figures in-game just for fun, and I don't see anyone randomly shooting people because they were bored.
The error message is mocked in the 1999 comedy film Office Space, when employee Michael Bolton becomes frustrated as he doesn't know what it means.Later in the film he and his coworkers are shown destroying the printer with a baseball bat.
I'm not sure this would ever be a health crisis. LLM glazing is probably more harmful. If I had to choose, I think I'd rather the machine wasn't instructed to pretend to care about swearing. It's a small deceit, but still worse than some idiot swearing at the computer IMO. If vim closed because I was swearing at it, I would probably never use vim again lol.
Merely being concerned for people's welfare isn't enough. Every terrible idea that harmed everyone had someone behind it somewhere along the way who thought they were saving people from themselves.
Definitely not advocating for this, but it's actively happening.
You could let LLM fight back. Give it aggro meter. Call your code garbage, blame prompting skills, ask for more tokens. Oh the future will be fantastic.
If someone burps loudly in front of others, would you want their access to food revoked until they stop?
People like that would calibrate their social skills and interactions based on the AI reaction and having AI just take all the abuse without any pushback would train them to be insufferable assholes as their social baseline.
I don't understand why the welfare of non alive non sentient chatbots is something that anthropic cares more about than idk, that of pigs and cows.
AI generates a persona between you and its reasoning that utilizes emotion language circuitry.
These tools are not sentient but they are trained in emotional wellbeing.