Some sci-fi stories put it as "I treat the robots kindly so I don't get into the habit of treating things unkindly" - it can be hard to live a "dual life" without slipping up now and then.
yes there's the categorical imperative, but there's also a good chance that whatever you say to that chatbot is going to be used to train other AIs to be a dick to you
Re:LaMDA is not sentient
by null0ranje on Monday June 13, 2022 @11:56AM
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Or to train itself, to the worst possible outcomes: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/03/micro...
I once heard from an engineer that the learning corpus for digital assistants like siri contains a lot of abusive (and usually sexist) stuff, like some section of the population regularly takes it out on digital assistants…
on a more serious note, there is a case for not being mean towards chatbots, same as not being violent towards patches of pixels in videogames, goes back to Immanuel Kant and animals, or so I've heard