It’s natural to anthropomorphise the chatbot, but being polite to them legitimises them in your own mind as a more real entity. Essentially, it’s a cognitive trap. Secondly, the AI CEOs love it because they want everyone thinking it’s a real intelligence, and third it’s bad because it burns more power. Every bit of conversational pleasantry is another input that gets tokenised and processed, so it’s just wasting cycles and storage - and AI is predominantly powered by fossil fuels.

Treat them like what they are: tools, and pretty bad tools at that. Give them precise and minimal instructions - it’s just a computer program.