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"Please" and "thank you" are key to who we are as a species. There's no point losing it to make talking to AI more efficient when it comes to operational costs.

Saying ‘please’ and ‘thank you’ to ChatGPT costs tens of millions of dollars, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman admits By Ariel Zilber Published April 21, 2025, 10:46 a.m. ET ...

Saying "please" and "thank you" to ChatGPT has cost OpenAI "tens of millions of dollars," the company's CEO said on social media last week.