« Thanks chatgpt »: to be kind with the ai ribes tens of millions of dollars, but for Sam Altman they are « spent well. You never know « 

Everything was born from a simple curiosity of a user posted on X: «I wonder how much money has lost Openai In electricity costs because of the people who say « please » and « thanks » to their models « . The answer of Sam Altman: «Tens of millions of dollars well spent. confesses the founder – You never know «  Sibile ironically.

Difficult not to think about tons of meme generated following his statement, in which the T800 of Terminator are seen saving the lives of a human being Because usually use courtesy in the interaction with artificial intelligence models. But there are deeper reasons for which it is used to express kindness and good educationwith the models used today.

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The platform Edible In fact, he shared a research in which he emerged that 71% of IA users belonging to Gen Z, thanked artificial intelligence at least once. This is because 25% of users believe that Ai is conscious, while more than half is sure that it will be in the future. Only 23% of the interpellators believe that it will never be. The vision of an immediate future, from the next 5 or 100 years, a period necessary for the conquest of the world by « Skynet », just to stay on the subject Terminator.

For these reasons, therefore, according to research, At least 69% of the gen Z says « please » and « thanks » to chatgpt. But that’s not all. The fears are different; On the one hand, the risk of being undermined by chatgpt in the professional career race, on the other hand, there are those who consider it a useful tool to improve their work performance. However, there is a more psychological question behind everything. The Investigation of Edibirdie brought details on the controversial relationship that Gen Z has with the AI ​​models. 16% dialogue us as if it were their therapist, 26% treat it as if it were a friend, 9% as a doctor and even 6% as a romantic partner.