ChatGPT started giving me worse answers after I started being polite to it and I cannot figure out why

This sounds ridiculous but hear me out. For about six months I used ChatGPT the same way I use a terminal. Terse. No greetings, no thanks, just straight commands. "Summarize this." "Fix the bug." "Rewrite this paragraph." The answers were fast, dense, exactly what I asked for. Then I read some thread here about people adding "please" and "thank you" and treating it like a person. I figured it was harmless so I started doing it out of habit. "Could you please help me with. " "Thank you, that was really helpful." Now my answers are longer. Way longer. hedging. "of.