{"id":23225,"date":"2025-04-21T10:43:34","date_gmt":"2025-04-21T07:43:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/openai-invests-millions-in-polite-user-interactions\/"},"modified":"2025-04-21T10:43:34","modified_gmt":"2025-04-21T07:43:34","slug":"openai-invests-millions-in-polite-user-interactions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/openai-invests-millions-in-polite-user-interactions\/","title":{"rendered":"OpenAI Invests Millions in Polite User Interactions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OpenAI has invested tens of millions of dollars in responding to users who include &#8220;please&#8221; and &#8220;thank you&#8221; in their queries, according to the company&#8217;s CEO, Sam Altman.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">tens of millions of dollars well spent\u2014you never know<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Sam Altman (@sama) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/sama\/status\/1912646035979239430?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 16, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The CEO&#8217;s statement sparked discussions about the necessity of &#8220;polite&#8221; interactions with AI bots. Some users noted they do so in case AI becomes sentient and begins interacting with humans based on past interactions.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">When I talk to ChatGPT I end the convo with <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThank you so much, I hope you have a good day! :)\u201d <\/p>\n<p>That way when ai enslaves humanity I won\u2019t be turned into slave <\/p>\n<p>One of the robots will step up when it\u2019s my turn to get whipped <\/p>\n<p> \u201cWait! I know him\u201d and save me<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 , (@Zvbear) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Zvbear\/status\/1905654959690907705?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 28, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>&#8220;When I talk to ChatGPT, I end the conversation with &#8216;thank you so much, I hope you have a good day!&#8217;. That way, when AI enslaves humanity, I won\u2019t become a slave. One of the robots will step up when it\u2019s my turn to get whipped, [saying] &#8216;wait, I know him&#8217; and save me,&#8221; wrote one user on X.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Developer Carl Youngblood noted that treating artificial intelligence well encourages its development.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Treating AIs with courtesy is a moral imperative for me. I do it out of self-interest. Callousness in our daily interactions causes our interpersonal skills to atrophy. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/fNZxeG6kjj\">https:\/\/t.co\/fNZxeG6kjj<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Carl Youngblood (@cayblood) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/cayblood\/status\/1912656670880326112?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 16, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>According to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.techradar.com\/computing\/artificial-intelligence\/are-you-polite-to-chatgpt-heres-where-you-rank-among-ai-chatbot-users\">survey<\/a> by Future, 67% of Americans are polite to AI:<\/p>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>55% do so because &#8220;it&#8217;s the right thing to do&#8221;;<\/li>\n<li>12% out of fear of future retribution by machines in case of an uprising.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Back in August 2024, research by the Bitcoin Policy Institute <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/ai-energy-consumption-surpasses-bitcoin-mining\">revealed<\/a> that the energy consumption of AI likely already exceeds that of Bitcoin mining.<\/p>\n<p>In December, Google and Microsoft <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/google-and-microsoft-pursue-greener-energy-solutions-for-ai\">planned<\/a> to &#8220;green&#8221; the energy procurement process and cooling systems of data centers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OpenAI has invested tens of millions of dollars in responding to users who include &#8220;please&#8221; and &#8220;thank you&#8221; in their queries, according to the company&#8217;s CEO, Sam Altman. tens of millions of dollars well spent\u2014you never know \u2014 Sam Altman (@sama) April 16, 2025 The CEO&#8217;s statement sparked discussions about the necessity of &#8220;polite&#8221; interactions [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23224,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"","news_style_id":"","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[438,1201,1190],"class_list":["post-23225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-chatbots","tag-openai"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"31","promo_type":"","layout_type":"","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23225","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23225"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23225\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}