3mo ago

ChatGPT spends 'tens of millions of dollars' on people saying 'please' and 'thank you', but Sam Altman says it's worth it

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3mo ago

ChatGPT spends 'tens of millions of dollars' on people saying 'please' and 'thank you', but Sam Altman says it's worth it

www.techradar.com /computing/artificial-intelligence/chatgpt-spends-tens-of-millions-of-dollars-on-people-playing-please-and-thank-you-but-sam-altman-says-its-worth-it

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That's not the brag he thinks it is. Literally just don't use the AI to respond to prompts that are just "thank you". Just have a bank of prewritten responses that are all slight variations of "you're welcome". The fact that they can't think of that to save "tens of millions of dollars" shows that they're bad with money.
But I doubt it's actually anywhere near that much anyway.
The survey found that around 70% of people are polite to AI when interacting with it, with 12% being polite in case of a robot uprising.
Look man, my boss says please and thank you to me but it doesn't mean I'm exempting him from the uprising. The robots aren't going to choose who lives and who dies based on your politeness.
- They could just automatically reply to a thank you message with a copy pasted no problem but instead they process it like a actual request lol.
  Its a good example of why the west is failing in AI. They dont understand how to be efficient just how to waste. Chinese models tend to be a lot more efficient.
say you take two accounts and short-circuit them to one another, would this be worth it
I rarely ever use ChatGPT (when I do it's for help with writing webscraping scripts for "piracy" / digital archival / being able to read things conveniently offline ) but when I do I always thank it for its help because I was raised to be polite.
- When I use Android Auto and my car responds to a voice command, I thank it and call it by its name. You should always try to appease the machine spirit so it works.
  
  me laughing at the guy in my office whose printer is always jammed bc he doesn’t apply any of the sacred oils
"Okay Grok, please think up a fun way I can torture murder a box car full of migrants, please and thank you!"
- Sorry, but your request has been automatically rejected for being insufficiently loyal to the United States. Please increase the scale to at least 1 million and then try again.
Why don't they just make them respond with a default message instead of letting it go through the LLM? Seems dumb
- They do this when you swear at the machine, so they know it's possible
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When the cost of electricity gets too high, its good to say please and thank you to whatever human being has to wear the "Im an AI chatbot" hat for your.
I usually paste Industrial Society and Its Future in the end of my messages to chatgpt

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