I don't always do it, but I do say "please" and "thank you" when talking to AI chatbots like ChatGPT. I use lots of words in those prompts, including appellatives like "Hey ChatGPT..." After all, that ...

Being polite to artificial intelligence can be quite expensive. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said on social media last week that saying "please" and "thank you" to ChatGPT has cost the company quite a bit of ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman revealed that user politeness towards ChatGPT, while "well-spent," costs millions in computing power. While ...

Saying "please" and "thank you" to ChatGPT emerged primarily as a form of social etiquette combined with a superstition that, one day, an AI overlord might be able to know if you were nice to it or ...

Adding words to our chatbot can apparently cost tens of millions of dollars. But some fear the cost of not saying please or thank you could be higher. By Sopan Deb The question of whether to be polite ...

If chivalry isn’t already dead, it’s certainly circling the drain. OpenAI CEO and tech billionaire Sam Altman recently admitted that people politely saying “please” and “thank you” to their AI ...

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says that the company spends tens of millions of dollars on electricity costs because people say “please” and “thank you” to ChatGPT. Most people who use AI in the U.S. report ...