Saying "please" and "thank you" to ChatGPT has cost OpenAI "tens of millions of dollars," the company's CEO said on social media last week.

Sam Altman told a ChatGPT user that those "please" and "thank you" one says to the AI rake in millions of dollars in electricity costs.

The energy costs associated with using polite language in interactions with ChatGPT are substantial, incurring tens of millions of dollars annually.