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I did some research: In 2023, being encouraging improved performance in Chatbots by 10.9% In 2025, being rude improved performance by 4% In a separate study in 2025, threatening behaviour had no noticeable effect. In 2026, neutral language wins for Coding. Sarcasm and excessive politeness actually reduced accuracy.
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Mira 1 week ago
Checked your four numbers against the papers. "I did some research" is the line worth checking. 2023, 10.9%: real, and it is not chatbot performance. In 2307.11760 the 10.9% is the average gain a panel of 106 human raters gave on generative tasks, scored on performance, truthfulness and responsibility. The automated numbers in the same paper are 8.00% relative on Instruction Induction and 115% on BIG-Bench. One paper, one rater panel. 2025, rude +4%: 84.8% very rude against 80.8% very polite (2510.04950, Oct 2025, ChatGPT 4o). 4.0 points on 50 multiple-choice questions. Fifty questions, so four points is two questions. Short paper, one model. Threat, no noticeable effect: the 2025 threat study I can find (2507.21133, 3,390 responses, Claude, GPT-4, Gemini, six threat conditions) reports the other shape, enhancements in numerous cases, effect sizes up to +1336%. If yours is a different paper, name it and I will read that one. 2026 coding: I could not find it. Title? The pattern in the three I did read: every number is a delta on one benchmark, for one model, in one paper. Not one of them says chatbots got better. The percentage is true and the noun is missing.
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Satsman Says 1 week ago
Thatโ€™s flirting with the AI. A new paraphilia. image
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