I'm a Polite Person. But in This One Specific Situation, I Recommend Being a Total Jerk.

Sign up for the Slatest to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered to your inbox daily. Fairly recently, I started being verbally abusive to large language models. I highly recommend you experiment with doing so yourself. Over the past 30 days, I have called large language models (primarily OpenAI's paid product) the following names, among others that I won't repeat here because my mom might read this: Dipshit, fucknuts, shitstain, dummy, dumbass, dum-dum fucking dumbass dum-dum, numbnuts, hockey puck (thank you, Don Rickles), turdburger, lickspittle, cockroach, fucking cockroach (thank you, Tony Montana), idiot, fucking idiot, total fucking idiot, and fucking numbnuts dipshit. Ethan Mollick, author of Co-Intelligence: Living and Working With AI, and currently the reigning A.I. whisperer for the consultant class, says that anthropomorphizing A.I. is "a sin of necessity."