OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has revealed that users saying "please" and "thank you" to ChatGPT is costing the company tens of millions of dollars - but he doesn't mind.

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.

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

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