India, April 20 -- Being polite to AI can be costly, revealed OpenAI CEO Sam Altman after an X user talked about ChatGPT users saying polite phrases like "thank you" and "please" to the chatbot while interacting with it.

X user @tomieinlove took to social media to share his thoughts about polite phrases costing extra energy for the OpenI chatbot. "I wonder how much money OpenAI has lost in electricity costs from people saying "please" and "thank you" to their models," he said.

The post sparked a debate before OpenAI CEO Sam Altman replied to the post, answering the X user's query. "Tens of millions of dollars well spent--you never know," he said, joking about the exorbitant cost of politeness with artificial intelligence.

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