Only around 70% of people are polite to AI when interacting with it Roughly two thirds of impolite AI users say it’s for brevity 12% of respondents are polite in case there’s a robot uprising Are you ...

So, feeling curious and a little naive, I experimented. I stripped my prompts down to just instructions – no pleases, no thank yous, just blunt directives. But something felt off. My requests felt ...