Saying ‘thank you’ to ChatGPT is costly, but maybe it’s worth the price


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. — KELSEY MCCLELLAN/The New York Times

The question of whether to be polite to artificial intelligence may seem a moot point – it is artificial, after all.

But Sam Altman, chief executive of artificial intelligence company OpenAI, recently shed light on the cost of adding an extra “Please!” or “Thank you!” to chatbot prompts.

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