OpenAI CEO Claims Saying ‘Please’ and ‘Thank You’ to ChatGPT Costs ‘Tens of Millions of Dollars’

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman claimed that saying ‘please’ and ‘thank you’ to ChatGPT costs his company ‘millions of dollars’ in electricity bills in a recent response to a question posed on X. This is apparently due to the massive amounts of energy it takes for AI to compute a request.