Politeness to ChatGPT Costs OpenAI Tens of Millions in Energy Expenses
- OpenAI CEO Sam Altman revealed that user politeness costs millions in electricity.
- Processing extra polite words like please and thank you requires unnecessary computing activity.
- Adding these words increases prompt tokens needing more computational resources and energy.
- Altman commented this expense was "Tens of millions of dollars well spent."
- This highlights the environmental burden and suggests viewing chatbots as computational engines.
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