OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said that responding to polite words on ChatGPT costs the company millions of dollars in electricity.

Inference, training, and everyday operations all contribute to the considerable water and power consumption required to run ...

Some shocking headlines involving the costs of being polite to AI chatbots like ChatGPT have circulated over the past few ...

Does saying 'please' and 'thank you' to ChatGPT really matter? Discover how politeness influences AI responses—and why your ...

With numbers like that, it’s easy to see how ChatGPT could go through “tens of millions of dollars” on a polite query that takes a bit longer to compute. Though Investopedia said that as of the end of ...

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

Sam Altman, chief executive of OpenAI, the company that developed ChatGPT, has revealed that polite expressions like ‘please’ ...

Politeness costs nothing, but with AI chatbots like ChatGPT becoming more common, that might no longer be true, at least when ...

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman revealed that polite language in ChatGPT prompts costs tens of millions annually in electricity. A ...

The company’s CEO, Sam Altman, shared on X on Monday that ChatGPT gained “one million users in the last hour.” He compared the user spike to the burgeoning interest in OpenAI during its early days in ...

Sam Altman's revelation comes amid a sharp rise in ChatGPT’s popularity, thanks in part to trends like Ghibli-style AI art.

This is the first of two States Newsroom stories examining the implications of the growing need for electricity largely from ...