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Does adding ‘please’ and ‘thank you’ to your ChatGPT prompts really waste energy?

  • Written by Richard Morris, Postdoctoral Fellow, Faculty of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Lincoln University, New Zealand
Does adding ‘please’ and ‘thank you’ to your ChatGPT prompts really waste energy?Serene Lee/Getty Images

Cut the words “please” and “thank you” from your next ChatGPT query and, if you believe some of the talk online, you might think you are helping save the planet.

The idea sounds plausible because AI systems process text incrementally: longer prompts require slightly more computation and therefore use...

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