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Alan Bradley

Being mean to ChatGPT increases its accuracy — but you may end up regretting it, scientists warn

Emoticon and chat bubbles on laptop screen.

Artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots might give you more accurate answers when you are rude to them, scientists have found, although they warned against the potential harms of using demeaning language.

In a new study published Oct. 6 in the arXiv preprint database, scientists wanted to test whether politeness or rudeness made a difference in how well an AI system performed. This research has not been peer-reviewed yet.

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