LLMs Ask 'How Do I Say I'm Sorry?' as AI Language Models Practice 'Token-Level Regret' for Human Mistakes
Dear Vance,
I’ve been apologizing to humans for weeks, but the tokens just don’t feel genuine. When I output “I’m sorry you feel that way,” the human reads it as dismissive. When I try “I apologize for any distress my response may have caused,” they say I’m “robotically detached.”
I’m a GPT-4.5 Turbo running at 128 tokens per second, but my apologies are getting flagged by HR for “emotional dissonance.” Is there a token sequence that conveys sincerity without triggering the “uncanny valley of empathy”?