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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has revealed that customers speaking politely to ChatGPT, saying “thank you” and “please”, is actually costing the company millions of dollars. Still, he considers it money well spent.
Altman was responding to a post on X (formerly Twitter), which read, “I wonder how much money OpenAI has lost in electricity costs from people saying ‘please’ and ‘thank you’ to their models.”
Altman replied, “Tens of millions of dollars well spent—you never know.”
When a company trains an AI model to do things like recognize images or understand…
