Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet?

[Ryujin]

Information overload, man. As a society, we're drowning in a quagmire of vid-clips, e-mail, and sound bites. We can't absorb it all. There's only one sane solution: blow it up!

Pocket EMP projector.

 

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it seems being polite does have a cost

Saying 'please' and 'thank you' to ChatGPT costs millions of dollars, CEO says

Saying "please" and "thank you" to ChatGPT has cost OpenAI "tens of millions of dollars," the company's CEO said on social media last week.

www.yahoo.com

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

it seems being polite does have a cost

Saying 'please' and 'thank you' to ChatGPT costs millions of dollars, CEO says

Saying "please" and "thank you" to ChatGPT has cost OpenAI "tens of millions of dollars," the company's CEO said on social media last week.

www.yahoo.com

Now price out the "generate an action figure" meme you used to promote your product, ChatGPT.

It's almost like your product is wildly resource intensive, even when users are asking for something that adds no value to the world.

 

[Scribe]

Information overload, man. As a society, we're drowning in a quagmire of vid-clips, e-mail, and sound bites. We can't absorb it all. There's only one sane solution: blow it up!

 

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from the article's survey "Additionally, about 12% of respondents say they are polite out of fear of future consequences."

 

[J.Quondam]

from the article's survey "Additionally, about 12% of respondents say they are polite out of fear of future consequences."

I've been thanking ATMs since the early 1990s for exactly this reason. I even explained that to an ATM once in college, only to turn around afterward to find that my buddies had moved on and some random woman was staring at me in confusion.

 

[Deset Gled]

I've been thanking ATMs since the early 1990s for exactly this reason. I even explained that to an ATM once in college, only to turn around afterward to find that my buddies had moved on and some random woman was staring at me in confusion.

I thank technology just to keep myself in the habit of being polite. Humans are creatures of habit, and we all turn our brains off sometimes. I'd rather be the guy that says "thank you" to a robot without thinking about it than the guy that forgets to say "thank you" to a waiter.

 

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I thank technology just to keep myself in the habit of being polite. Humans are creatures of habit, and we all turn our brains off sometimes. I'd rather be the guy that says "thank you" to a robot without thinking about it than the guy that forgets to say "thank you" to a waiter.

I've said sorry to mannequins when i've bumped into one by accident

 

[Ryujin]

I've said sorry to mannequins when i've bumped into one by accident

More than once I've seen someone apologize to the lamp post they just walked into but hey, it's Canada.