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To always thank ChatGPT?

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LassWithSass · 07/07/2025 23:05

I use chatGPT quite a bit for my work, giving it lots of prompts to help me write quick and succinct reports. I always say please and thanks very much though - just feels rude not to. Also, I can’t help but think that in the future, when it’s way more advanced, it will remember who was polite and grateful and who wasn’t…

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Neodymium · 07/07/2025 23:09

found it!

To always thank ChatGPT?
Neodymium · 07/07/2025 23:07

There was an article about this recently that prompted a bunch of memes.

people saying please and thankyou are using up huge amounts of processing power and thus energy. So it’s actually wasteful.

NachoChip · 07/07/2025 23:07

I recently attended a training course on AI and they said that you should stop saying thank you because AI uses so much water and energy, that all the "thank yous" are massively environmentally damaging and wasteful.