Do you also use polite words like Please and Thank You while talking to ChatGPT? Then you will be surprised to know that there are many people like you. Many people show politeness while chatting with AI. But this politeness of yours is costing OpenAI crores of rupees in electricity every year. Open AI CEO Sam Altman recently said that due to talking politely to ChatGPT, the company has to pay electricity bills worth hundreds of crores of rupees every year.

What is the matter of please and thank you?

A social media user jokingly asked Sam a question that polite chat also has an expense. People say please and thank you while chatting, so does it cost more? To this Altman replied that yes, but it is a good expense for us.

Why is so much being spent?
Whenever you talk to ChatGPT, powerful computer systems run to process each word. A lot of electricity is required to run these systems. Along with this, heavy cooling systems have to be run to keep them cool.

So when millions of people talk to AI, especially have long and polite conversations, its total electricity cost also increases a lot.

Even more expensive for paid users

For those who use the paid version of ChatGPT, every word has a different price.

This also includes words like “Thank You” or “Please”. Because this system works on token-based billing. This means that the more the words, the more it costs.

In the world of AI, words like thank you and please also have an impact and increase the cost. But this shows that humans have now started treating machines like humans and perhaps this will make AI even better.

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