Yes, in the early days of ChatGPT I had noticed that polite conversation leads to less adversarial responses. In retrospect it does seem logical that a language

Yes, in the early days of ChatGPT I had noticed that polite conversation leads to less adversarial responses. In retrospect it does seem logical that a language model would choose more amenable responses and be more willing to help when spoken nicely to. I do not know if that behavior has been programmed out of it by now, I simply talk nicely to it with please and thank you out of habit at this point.