‘Please’ and ‘thank you’ sent to chatgpt, Openai has already cost thousands of dollars

According to Openai CEO Sam Altman, every time you send, Chatgpt “thank you” or “please” please increase Openai’s energy consumption. Revelation was held last week in response to a curious X (Twitter) broadcast.

@Tonlove profile, “Openai’nin ‘Please’ and ‘thank you’ I wonder how much money in energy costs lost. Altman (@sama) replied:” replied: “[Foram] He never knows. “

Openai has already spent millions to cope with trained users.

Although Altman did not detail the exact values, It is a fact that such formalities produce calculation costs.. Each character placed in a request occupies space in the context window and must be analyzed thoroughly when the message is sent.

Large language models (LLMS) work based on statistical possibilities. Each answer is created by combining the characters and words that make sense in the gigantic database used in model training.

Thus, when buying a “please”, Chatgpt expression like other text data. The model interprets such terms as a sign of education and formality, shaping the answer to reflect this tone. Something similar appears with messages containing “thank you”.

Energy consumption is incredibly large

2024 According to the future consultancy survey, 67% of users in the United States interact with chat boots trained.. Approximately 55% of them say that they do this because they see this as “the right to do it, and 12% believe that sincerity can help prevent retaliation in a possible machine revolution.

To get an idea about the energy effect, A single e -mail message detailed by AI consumes approximately 0.14 kWh energy – According to data, enough to illuminate 14 LED lamps for an hour Washington Post.

Obviously, this consumption should not be almost anything when compared to Watts-Hora (H) consumed to produce “Studio Ghibli style” images.

With this, only 400 million Chatgpt user stays to imagine how much energy is spent to process the training.

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