- Openai CEO says to say “thank you” or “thank you” to chatgpt costs the company ‘tens of thousands of millions of dollars’
- A future study found that approx. 70% of people are polite to AI
- Experts believe that being polite to AI is actually advantageous for the answers you receive, but at what costs?
Do you say “thank you” or “thank you” to chatgpt? If you are polite for Openais Chatbot, you can be part of the user base that costs the company “Tens of thousands of millions of dollars” on electricity bills.
User @tomiinlove wrote on X, “I wonder how much money Openai has lost in electricity costs from people saying ‘thank you’ and ‘thank you’ to their models.”
Openai CEO, Sam Altman, replied, “Tens of thousands of millions of dollars used – you never know.” Thank you for lowering the world’s anxiety around an AI uprising, Sam. We will all be sure to waste even more energy by saying “thank you” or “thank you” from now on.
In February, Future PLC, the company that owns Techradar, drew a study of more than 1,000 people on their AI ethics. The study found that about 70% of people are polite to AI when interacting with it, where 12% are polite in the case of a robot uprising.
Obviously, there is an energy cost when using Chatgpt, which has massive AI-powered servers running the entire operation. But as these tools thrive in popularity, most of us are even aware that a simple message or an AI-generated meme is affecting the planet?
Techradar reached Openai for comment, we update this story when we hear back.
Should we be polite to AI?
If we are polite to AI, can we have such an impact on energy consumption, should we even bother to be lovely to chat?
Presumably, these ‘tens of thousands of millions of dollars’ altman are due to users saying ‘thank you’ or ‘thank you’ in a contained message rather than at the end of a prompt. Hopefully, Openai will answer our inquiry to give us more understanding of how people frame these special messages.
Techradar -author Becca Caddy stopped saying thanks to chatgpt and found that being polite for an AI -Chatbot could actually help with the answers.
In her article, she wrote, “polite, well-structured requests often lead to better answers, and in some cases they can even reduce bias. It’s not just a bonus-it is a critical factor in AI reliability.
As AI develops, it will be fascinating to see if courtesy itself becomes a built -in function. Could AI favor users who communicate respectfully? Will models be trained to respond differently based on etiquette? “
So while it may not be energy efficient, being polite to AI could actually give you a better experience while interacting with chatgpt. But is it worth the environmental cost?
