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[โ€“] iii@mander.xyz 2 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

The people who treat LLM chatbot like they're people have much deeper issues than just ignorance.

I don't know if it's an urban myth, but I've heard about 20% of LLM inference time and electricity is being spend on "hello" and "thank you" prompts. :)

[โ€“] Gorilladrums@lemmy.world 4 points 10 hours ago

It's a very real thing. So much so that OpenAI actually came out and publicly complained about how it's apparently costing the company millions.

https://www.vice.com/en/article/telling-chatgpt-please-and-thank-you-costs-openai-millions-ceo-claims/