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Other than the potential liability, cost may also be a factor. Back in April 2025, Altman mentioned people saying "thank you" was adding “tens of millions of d
by mv4 10mo ago
Other than the potential liability, cost may also be a factor.
Back in April 2025, Altman mentioned people saying "thank you" was adding “tens of millions of dollars” to their infra costs. Wondering if adding per-message timestamps would cost even more.
- cj 10mo agoPresumably you could decouple timestamps from inference. I would be very surprised if they don’t already store date/time metadata. If they do, it’s just a matter of exposing it.
- stainablesteel 10mo agothis is actually hilarious, also easily fixable if they just respond to that with a pre-determined if response == 'thank you': print('your welcome')
- jiggawatts 10mo agoThat won't work if the previous conversation was something like "translate everything from here on into <target language>".
- joquarky 10mo agoThen just filter out "thank you" from the input if it's costing millions of dollars.
- g947o 10mo agoI think "thank you" are used for inference in follow-up messages, but not necessarily timestamps. I just asked ChatGPT this: > Suppose ChatGPT does not currently store the timestamp of each message in conversations internally at all. Based on public numbers/estimates, calculate how much money it will cost OpenAI per year to display the timestamp information in every message, considering storage/bandwidth etc The answer it gave was $40K-$50K. I am too dumb and inexperienced to go through everything and verify if it makes sense, but anyone who knows better is welcome to fact check this.
- nacozarina 10mo agoit’s wild ppl accept his rhetoric at face value
- mikkupikku 10mo agoAltman was being dumb; being polite to LLMs makes them produce higher quality results which results in less back-and-forth, saving money in the long run.