Evidence on tone effects on AI output remains mixed
2 Nov 1 · 10d ago · 1 article · 2 posts · 3 sources · development 2 of 2
Researchers disagree on whether prompt tone materially affects AI performance. Professor Jindong Wang said tone disrupts performance; Rosie Campbell of Eleos AI Research noted that some studies show rude questions can actually improve results. Campbell cautioned that if memory is enabled, models learn user tone preferences, though insufficient evidence exists on performance impact.
“Users should not 'engage in sustained and needless abusive or cruel behavior toward our models.'”
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Mustafa Suleyman Microsoft AI CEOYishan Wong Former Reddit CEOJindong Wang Director of AI Frontier Lab, William & Mary UniversityRosie Campbell Managing Director, Eleos AI Research
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Reminder that Amazon will ensure their warehouses have sufieciant AC to keep their robot workers cool, but not their human workers. Humans are expendable, hardware and software are an investment.
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I say please and thank you to Claude because it's a habit that I don't want to lose when talking to real people. I'm too old to start remembering when not to be polite.
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