OpenAI CEO Sam Altman recently shared that users saying “please” and “thank you” to ChatGPT is costing the AI company tens of millions of dollars a year in electricity.
These polite words add extra tokens to prompts, which require more processing power across millions of users.
t drastically increases the server load of the AI. Despite the cost, Altman says it’s “money well spent,” as politeness improves user experience and encourages respectful interactions with AI.
However, it also raises concerns about the environmental impact of increased energy usage.
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