No Universal Courtesy: A Cross-Linguistic, Multi-Model Study of Politeness Effects on LLMs Using the PLUM Corpus

Hitesh Mehta, Arjit Saxena, Garima Chhikara +1

This paper explores the response of Large Language Models (LLMs) to user prompts with different degrees of politeness and impoliteness. The Politeness Theory by Brown and Levinson…