No, don’t threaten ChatGPT for better results. Try this instead

Google co-founder Sergey Brin recently claimed that all AI models tend to do better if you threaten them with physical violence. “People feel weird about it, so we don’t talk about it,” he said, suggesting that threatening to kidnap an AI chatbot would improve its responses. Well, he’s wrong. You can get good answers from an AI chatbot without threats!

To be fair, Brin isn’t exactly lying or making things up. If you’ve been keeping up with how people use ChatGPT, you may have seen anecdotal...