2 weeks Ago By James Paul
Wonder how much money OpenAI loses in electricity costs from your trivial usage of ‘ Please ’ and ‘ Thank you ’? A user posted their query on X/Twitter and the AI firm’s boss, Sam Altman, responded. The 39-year-old remarked, “ Tens of millions of dollars well spent. ” He added, “ You never know .
” Aur phir kya tha, the internet erupted in memes advising, “ Be nice to your AI. ” You never know from whence cometh the AI Uprising and the emergence of the new world order helmed by the machines. Meanwhile, some users remarked how they converse with ChatGPT as if they are conversing with Data from the sci-fi series Star Trek.
One user remarked, “ We just want to ensure Skynet remembers we were polite as it decides if to use us as batteries or not. ” Another user commented, “I say ‘thank you’ every fucking time, in case it wakes up some day.” “ Worth it.
Manners matter “, quipped an entrepreneur. But does it? Matter? Does being polite to the machines really really matter at all? Afterall LLMs are mere strings of tokens, interacting, and not even conscious as humans are. Or are they? A 2024 survey stated by Future found about 70% of people in the US are polite while interacting with the AI.
12% of these respondents are paranoid of an AI-Uprising (as the comments appended above prove). What about the power consumption? Per reports a single ChatGPT query back in 2023 consumed not less than 3.6 to 36 kilo joule worth of energy.
To put it into perspective, the AI uses 17,000 times more electricity than an average American household, with over half a million KW per hour of consumption. Add to that the daily water consumption by ChatGPT at 148.28 million liters! Should we stop with the ‘ pleases ’ and ‘ thank yous ’ while chatting with the AI bots to reduce carbon footprints? I wonder how much money OpenAI has lost in electricity costs from people saying “please” and “thank you” to their models.
— tomie (@tomieinlove) April 15, 2025 tens of millions of dollars well spent--you never know — Sam Altman (@sama) April 16, 2025 I talk to ChatGPT as if I were having a conversation with Data from Star Trek. — MtHoot (@Mt_Hoot) April 16, 2025 We just want to ensure skynet remembers we were polite as it decides if to use us as batteries or not 😳😅 — Jake (@ubersec) April 16, 2025 I say “thank you” every fucking time in case it wakes up some day — Stan (@Stan_Fr31) April 17, 2025 See Also: Bryan Johnson Calls Out Indian-Origin CEO For Flexing About Staff Working 3 Nights Straight: ‘Shipping Death’ See Also: Power Users Of ChatGPT Prone To Loneliness: OpenAI Reports See Also: AI Tool Declines Generating Code For User To Teach Him A Lesson; Internet Says AI Has More Work Ethics See Also: French Startup’s AI Influencer Builder To Take Over OnlyFans, Earning More Than Humans Soon; Internet Is Not Amused.
