You got to hand it to DeepMind. They’re the Apple of laboratories. While everyone else is clamoring to occupy space in the public head, it’s toiling mysteriously in the background. 

In other words: You’re the middle segment in a human-AI centipede.

If the basic idea is to get the most utility out of chatbots, it seems counterintuitive to train them to waste tokens and time outputting polite language. 

Chatbots don’t actually exist. No, we’re not trying to create a conspiracy theory. What we mean is this: large language models (LLMs) aren’t “entities” or “beings.”

LLMs are too stupid to be useful for professional work, but that won’t stop content creators from shooting themselves in the foot with it.