I don't think shame is a helpful human emotion here in general. It prevents people from reaching out for help and makes many crimes much harder to tackle because the victims do not report it.

Also many victims fall for the exact same scam over and over again; to the point that lists of scam victims are sold and used as leads.

If a junior developer makes a dumb mistake that causes a mini-disaster, their brain makes it a priority to never make that same mistake again. They physically feel anxiety the next time they get into a similar situation, which serves as a very effective reminder not to do the same dumb thing.

LLMs make the same mistakes over and over. And even if/when they have the capacity to learn on the fly, they have no capacity to prioritize. It's all just a big haze of tokens.

That's my overall point. Humans have mistakes and then they have MISTAKES. And a whole continuum in between. LLMs just have a mish-mash of training data. I think before LLMs are more than just fancy parrots, we need a find an analogue to pain, shame, joy, fear, and the myriad other emotions that factor into human decision-making.

Shame is a wildly useful human emotion. Shame of letting down the tribal unit formed basically all of civilization. Shame is good.