{"id":986352,"date":"2026-01-19T11:44:45","date_gmt":"2026-01-19T06:14:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=986352"},"modified":"2026-01-19T11:44:45","modified_gmt":"2026-01-19T06:14:45","slug":"chatgpt-performs-better-when-youre-rude-to-it-but-researchers-warn-that-theres-a-catch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/01\/19\/chatgpt-performs-better-when-youre-rude-to-it-but-researchers-warn-that-theres-a-catch\/","title":{"rendered":"ChatGPT performs better when you&#8217;re rude to it but researchers warn that there\u2019s a catch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AI chatbots like ChatGPT respond more accurately when users are rude to them, a new study claims. However, researchers warn that the approach could create harmful communication habits. According to a report by Fortune, researchers at the Pennsylvania State University tested ChatGPT&#8217;s 4o model on 50 multiple-choice questions, using over 250 prompts ranging from very polite to very rude. They found that \u201cvery rude\u201d prompts achieved 84.8% accuracy, which was four percentage points higher than &#8220;very polite&#8221; prompts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AI chatbots like ChatGPT respond more accurately when users are rude to them, a new study claims. However, researchers warn that the approach could create harmful communication habits. According to a report by Fortune, researchers at the Pennsylvania State University tested ChatGPT&#8217;s 4o model on 50 multiple-choice questions, using over 250 prompts ranging from very polite to very rude. They found that \u201cvery rude\u201d prompts achieved 84.8% accuracy, which was four percentage points higher than &#8220;very polite&#8221; prompts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-986352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/986352","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=986352"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/986352\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=986352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=986352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=986352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}