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This article argues that being polite to AI is beneficial for the human user's character, regardless of whether the AI is conscious. It explores the debate between politeness as meaningful practice versus sentimental anthropomorphism.
This paper investigates how politeness and impoliteness in user prompts affect LLM responses across three languages and five major models, finding that politeness effects are language- and model-dependent rather than universal. The authors release PLUM, a multilingual corpus of 1,500 human-validated prompts with politeness annotations, and assess response quality using eight factors.