The comparison fails because I don't send numbers to my potatoes either, but I do send thousands to calculators without a please and thank you.
Practicing communications skills with LLMs I can get, but asserting that people who don't are playing god? Getting off on power?
The criticism comes because people self-share how they berate the agents, argue and curse at them. It's right here in the comment section. one comment speaks of causing physical (simulated i guess) thousand year pain as a means of obedience.
it's weird.