CHATGPT SAYS YES SIR AS 77-YEAR-OLD BUILDS VERTICAL FARM WHILE CALLING IT SIR
A 77-year-old mid-flight business plan called ChatGPT “sir” three times in three sentences. Politeness scaled. The robot answered in kind.
A 77-year-old passenger opened a laptop somewhere over the Midwest and began drafting a vertical-farming business plan with ChatGPT, addressing the chatbot as “sir” three times in three consecutive sentences. The thread, later clipped and recirculated, has drawn roughly three million views. Manners, it turns out, remain a scalable infrastructure.
TrustUs.News reviewed the transcript the way a maître d’ reviews a reservation list: each “sir” logged, each yield projection politely returned. An expert who watched the exchange said only, “Yes, sir,” which was either analysis or an involuntary reflex. Politeness scaled. The model did not request a tip. Coming up on Evening Fabrication: whether courtesy is a prompt engineering technique or just Midwestern muscle memory.
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