{"id":127592,"date":"2025-04-21T06:16:26","date_gmt":"2025-04-21T06:16:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=127592"},"modified":"2025-04-21T06:16:26","modified_gmt":"2025-04-21T06:16:26","slug":"users-being-polite-to-chatgpt-is-costing-openai-millions-sam-altman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=127592","title":{"rendered":"Users being polite to ChatGPT is costing OpenAI millions \u2014 Sam Altman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Cointelegraph.com NewsOpenAI CEO Sam Altman says users sending \u201cplease\u201d and \u201cthank you\u201d messages to ChatGPT is costing the company tens of millions of dollars.<br \/>\n\u201cTens of millions of dollars well spent &#8212; you never know,\u201d Altman said on April 16 after being asked to estimate the cost on X.<br \/>\nSource: Sam AltmanAltman\u2019s response sparked discussion about what drives users to interact with AI models in a polite manner.<br \/>\nSome AI users say they interact politely with the bots in case AI becomes sentient and starts treating people based on how they interacted with it in the past.<br \/>\nSource: ZvbearOthers, such as engineer Carl Youngblood, claim they\u2019re motivated to treat the AI well for personal development:<br \/>\n\u201cTreating AIs with courtesy is a moral imperative for me. I do it out of self-interest. Callousness in our daily interactions causes our interpersonal skills to atrophy.\u201d<br \/>\nA December 2024 survey by Future found that 67% of American users are polite to AI assistants, with 55% doing so because it&#8217;s the right thing to do, and the other 12% doing so out of fear that mistreating the bots could come back to haunt them.<br \/>\nDebate over ChatGPT\u2019s electricity consumption<br \/>\nA September 2023 research paper from Digiconomist founder and Bitcoin mining critic Alex de Vries states that a single ChatGPT query requires around three watt-hours of electricity.<br \/>\nHowever, data analyst Josh You from AI research institute Epoch AI argues the figure is an overestimate, and is closer to 0.3 watt-hours due to more efficient models and hardware compared to 2023.<br \/>\nOne responder to Altman\u2019s post wondered why ChatGPT doesn\u2019t have a solution to save electricity costs on courtesy words like please and thank you.<br \/>\nAltman recently stated that the cost of AI output has been falling tenfold every year as AI models become more efficient.<br \/>\nRelated: AI tokens, memecoins dominate crypto narratives in Q1 2025: CoinGecko<br \/>\nMeanwhile, OpenAI expects to more than triple its revenue this year to $12.7 billion, despite an uptick in competition from the likes of China\u2019s DeepSeek and others making rapid progress.<br \/>\nOpenAI does not expect to be cash-flow positive until 2029, when it expects its revenue to top $125 billion.<br \/>\nMagazine: Your AI \u2018digital twin\u2019 can take meetings and comfort your loved ones<a href=\"https:\/\/cointelegraph.com\/news\/being-polite-chatgpt-costing-openai-millions-says-sam-altman?utm_source=rss_feed&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=rss_partner_inbound\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Cointelegraph.com NewsOpenAI CEO Sam Altman says users sending \u201cplease\u201d and \u201cthank you\u201d messages to ChatGPT is costing the company tens of millions of dollars. \u201cTens of millions of dollars&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127592"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=127592"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127592\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=127592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=127592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=127592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}