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Cost of good manners: Why saying 'please', 'thank you' to ChatGPT is costing billions in water, electricity bills

By Molly Chebet | 1yr ago

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has revealed that saying please and thank you to ChatGPT costs millions of dollars in energy.

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