When you say 'please', ChatGPT starts its response with 'Certainly!', but you still get the same answers. The rest is just window dressing. Also, I don’t feel like I’m actively being rude to ...

It turns out that saying "please" isn't as common—or polite—as you think. Here's what the experts say. “Say the magic word!” As children, we’re taught that the polite thing to do is ...

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has said saying "please" and "thank you" to ChatGPT costs "tens of millions of dollars," but is it worth it?

Does saying 'please' and 'thank you' to ChatGPT really matter? Discover how politeness influences AI responses—and why your etiquette might be driving up OpenAI’s massive energy bill.

AI Doesn’t Care if You’re Polite to It. You Should Be Anyway. Saying ‘please’ and ‘thank you’ to a chatbot uses more electricity, but it’s worth it to cultivate the habit of gratitude.

Of that 71%, 83% of polite users (or 59% of all AI users surveyed in the UK) said they always remembered to say please and thank you to AI because it's the right thing to do, while, 17% were ...

If you’ve ever caught yourself saying “please” and “thank you” to ChatGPT, you’re in good company. In an informal online survey by Ethan Mollick, an associate professor at the ...

Being polite to artificial intelligence can be quite expensive. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said on social media last week that saying "please" and "thank you" to ChatGPT has cost the company quite a ...

OpenAI CEO says polite prompts like ‘please’ & 'thank you' are costing millions in power. Being polite to AI may be charming, but it’s racking up a shockingly expensive electricity bill.

“I wonder how much money OpenAI has lost in electricity costs from people saying ‘please’ and ‘thank you’ to their models.” It was a seemingly random question posed by a user on X ...

(Incidentally, I don’t say please and thank you to Alexa or my car, either.) It’s not like adding a please or thank you to a ChatGPT, or Alexa, request makes any real difference to the answers ...