🤖 AI Politeness Price Tag: The Cost of Being Nice to ChatGPT
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Today we're exploring a fascinating revelation from OpenAI CEO Sam Altman about the hidden costs of AI politeness. It turns out being courteous to our AI assistants comes with quite a price tag. According to Altman, people saying 'please' and 'thank you' to ChatGPT is costing the company tens of millions of dollars in extra computing resources.
Every single word processed by ChatGPT requires computational power, and when multiplied across billions of conversations worldwide, even these small courtesies add up significantly. When questioned about these costs on social media, Altman's response was notably positive, calling it 'tens of millions of dollars well spent.'
This raises interesting questions about the intersection of human behavior and AI interaction. Should we maintain human social conventions when talking to AI, even at a substantial cost? Or should we adopt a more utilitarian approach? The fact that OpenAI seems willing to absorb these costs suggests they value maintaining these social norms in human-AI interactions.
As we continue to integrate AI more deeply into our daily lives, these questions of etiquette and interaction costs will likely become increasingly relevant.
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