Saying ‘please’, ‘thank you’ to ChatGPT? How your polite chats are costing OpenAI millions

Sam Altman, chief executive of OpenAI, the company that developed ChatGPT, has revealed that polite expressions like ‘please’ and ‘thank you’ are costing the firm tens of millions of dollars. While it may sound amusing, there is a technical reason behind the hefty expense. Each polite message initiates a new response from the AI, and generating these replies in real time relies on high-powered computing systems that use massive amounts of electricity

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