Being nice to ChatGPT costs OpenAI “millions of dollars”

People saying please and thank you when using AI chatbot ChatGPT is costing OpenAI millions of dollars, says the company’s boss. Sam Altman was responding on X to the question: “I wonder how much money OpenAI has lost in electricity costs from people saying ‘please’ and ‘thank you’ to their models”. He replied: “Tens of millions of dollars well spent — you never know” (www.snipca.com/54637). Altman’s response was probably tongue in cheek, but it’s still an indication of how expensive it is to ru...