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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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Windows Central broke the news in on Thursday, April 17, 2025.
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