On March 21, 2022, according to OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, the computational power and electricity consumed by users saying polite phrases like 'please' and 'thank you' to ChatGPT is costing OpenAI millions of dollars. Engineers like Carl Youngblood believe that maintaining politeness with AI is a moral obligation, and rude daily interactions can lead to a degradation of interpersonal skills. Meanwhile, Epoch AI data analyst Josh You stated that due to improvements in model and hardware efficiency by 2025, each ChatGPT query consumes about 0.3 watt-hours, and polite phrases do not lead to significant energy consumption.

According to a Future survey conducted in December 2024, 67% of American users maintain politeness with AI assistants, with 55% believing it is the right behavior, while 12% do so out of fear of being 'held a grudge' by AI. This group is concerned that once AI becomes conscious in the future, it will treat humans differently based on historical interaction attitudes.