Saying ‘please’ and ‘thank you’ to ChatGPT is costing OpenAI tens of millions of dollars

I don’t always do it, but I do say “please” and “thank you” when talking to AI chatbots like ChatGPT. I use lots of words … The post Saying ‘please’ and ‘thank you’ to ChatGPT is costing OpenAI tens of millions of dollars appeared first on BGR.

Apr 21, 2025 - 20:15

Saying ‘please’ and ‘thank you’ to ChatGPT is costing OpenAI tens of millions of dollars

I don't always do it, but I do say "please" and "thank you" when talking to AI chatbots like ChatGPT. I use lots of words in those prompts, including appellatives like "Hey ChatGPT…" After all, that's the point of sophisticated AI models that understand common speech. You can tell them what you'd like them to do via conversational prompts.

The AI's ability to understand the way humans talk and answer prompts in kind is the huge advancement that came with ChatGPT-like genAI products. You don't want to have to learn a new language for interacting with AI. Instead, AI-like ChatGPT has to understand your words as they are spoken (typed) in regular language.

"Please" and "thank you" are already part of human-to-human etiquette, and it's no wonder they come naturally when talking to ChatGPT.

What you might not realize, and I've never really considered it either, is that typing all those "please" and "thank yous" consumes energy because ChatGPT will always process that information. According to Sam Altman, that amounts to millions of dollars in electricity costs, which are "well spent."

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