This feels like AI deniers grasping at straws. You have to prove the claim that "friendly" models do better in head to head user ratings. You also have to adequ

This feels like AI deniers grasping at straws. You have to prove the claim that "friendly" models do better in head to head user ratings. You also have to adequately define your claim which hasn't been done. And then you have to prove that by whatever definition of "friendliness" you've constructed made a significant difference in the benchmark. What I suspect will happen is that someone will just tell the LLM to "be curt" that may cause it's score to drop and people will unthinkingly take that to mean the above nonsensical claims are true.