W ith the release of its latest models earlier in the week, OpenAI seems to have inadvertently tuned ChatGPT to become a ...

Being polite to AI can be costly, revealed OpenAI CEO Sam Altman after an X user talked about ChatGPT users saying polite phrases like "thank you" and "please" to the chatbot while interacting with it ...

The quirk only appears to impact certain models of ChatGPT, like OpenAI o3, that show their working when asked questions.

When one user on X (formerly Twitter) wondered aloud how much money OpenAI loses due to these polite gestures, Altman responded that it amounted to "tens of millions of dollars well spent." ...

The Surprising Cost of Politeness to AI: What ChatGPT Users Need to Know ...

Altman was responding to a post on X (formerly Twitter), which read, "I wonder how much money OpenAI has lost in electricity ...

Sam Altman's revelation comes amid a sharp rise in ChatGPT’s popularity, thanks in part to trends like Ghibli-style AI art.

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said users' politeness to ChatGPT is costing millions due to higher computational load. ChatGPT now has ...

A recent comment by Sam Altman revealed that users' politeness towards OpenAI contributes to "tens of millions of dollars." ...

With more than 1 billion questions per day, the systems of Openai burn almost 2.9 million kilowatt-hours of power each day.

Are you one of those people who like to show etiquette to an AI bot and interact with it politely? OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has stated that people using words like "please" or "thank you" are costing ...