AI is an expensive business. There’s the massive amount of power required, plus the water, and now being polite to an AI is being highlighted as a huge cost.

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman revealed that users saying "please" and "thank you" to ChatGPT is costing the company tens of millions in additional energy expenses, highlighting how courtesy phrases increase computational demands.

Adding words to our chatbot can apparently cost tens of millions of dollars. But some fear the cost of not saying please or thank you could be higher.