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Re:OpenAI Charges by the Minute, So Make the Minutes Shorter by Philip-J-Fry on Thursday June 26, 2025 @01:35PM (#44389488)
Well, humans saying thanks to eachother isn't wasted energy. It has a real affect on our relationships.

People say thank you to AI because they are portrayed as human-like chat bots, but in reality it has almost no effect on their effectiveness to respond to our queries.

Saying thank you to ChatGPT is no less wasteful than saying thank you to Windows for opening the calculator.

I don't think anyone is trying to draw any parallels between that inefficiency and real humans saying thank you?

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Re:OpenAI Charges by the Minute, So Make the Minutes Shorter by mewpmewp2 on Friday June 27, 2025 @02:00AM (#44394044)
Saying thank you might still make sense in theory with AI, if AI used this as a clue to learn how useful the response was. Currently there is thumbs up and down, but it is very possible that there are mid conversation effects of it in the same context.
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