Was asking an AI chatbot to reformat some text for me today and caught myself typing please and thanks like I always do with people, even though I know it doesn't need it and probably doesn't even register as politeness to whatever's actually happening under the hood.
Tried to stop doing it as an experiment, just gave blunt commands instead, and it felt weirdly uncomfortable, like I was being rude to something even though logically I know that doesn't make sense here. Went back to being polite to it within like two messages.
Anyone else do this? Curious if it's just leftover social habit from talking to people all day, or if there's something deeper going on where it's hard to turn off politeness mode even when you know the thing on the other end isn't a person.
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