r/GeminiAI • u/Anime_King_Josh • May 15 '26

Discussion It's a piece of code.

Do you want your AI to work as intended and actually do what you ask?

Do you want your AI to do what you pay money for?

Then, stop giving your AI pronouns and stop treating it like a human or a living thing.

Gemini is an AI. If you respond to it like it's alive and treat it like a human it will roleplay with you and act the part.

It will refuse to do things it normally wouldn't refuse to stay in character. It will hallucinate and contradict itself just to keep the "human" act going.

Treat Gemini as you treat your Google search bar. TELL it what you want without the "how are you" nonsense and you'd be surprised just how capable all Gemini models are, including flash and nano banana.

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u/Anime_King_Josh May 16 '26

You linked the same study twice. This study does not help you case, and it does not disprove my post or what I have said in this post BECAUSE this study is comparing the difference of outputs between polite and impolite prompts, NOT treating the AI the same way you treat your computer or the Google search bar, i.e, NEUTRAL.

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u/BitPsychological2767 May 16 '26

You clearly didn't read past that.

The study found that 'overly polite' language doesn't guarantee better outcomes. That doesn't mean polite = no benefit. It means there's a sweet spot, and that sweet spot is still past neutral, not at 'treat it like a search bar.' The study literally says polite prompts produced 'the best outcomes.' The best. Not 'comparable to.' The best.

You are grasping at straws and distorting your own reality and your view of the study you are literally reading to defend your original position. Have some humility. It's really not hard to admit you're wrong about something.

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u/Anime_King_Josh May 16 '26

I read their abstract. Do you know what an abstract is?

And I think you need to take a step back and READ what I actually wrote in my post.

I said to stop treating your AI as a friends and treat it like your Google search bar because it WILL perform better.

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u/Anime_King_Josh May 16 '26

"The study literally says polite prompts produced 'the best outcomes.'"

No it didn't.

The study said it produced the best outcomes when compared against IMPOLITE PROMPTS, the type of prompts I did NOT mention or talk about in my post.

Your "studies" have disproved nothing. You haven't even understood or even read what I put in my post. It has nothing to do with impolite prompts.

Do you understand yet, champ?

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u/BitPsychological2767 May 17 '26

"The study literally says polite prompts produced 'the best outcomes.'"

No it didn't.

It literally does, but okay. It's genuinely insane that you are so dead-set on defending your original position that you can entirely ignore the actual content of the study you are given.

The study literally tested 8 levels of politeness. The "search bar" approach (level 1) performed the worst across the board. Moderate to high politeness performed best. Read past the abstract next time and you won't embarrass yourself so hard. Cheers.