Nick and Jack
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thanks or wow chat gpt thank you for listing all those emperors can you give me all of the gladiators of rome please now nick like 20 of those two sentences from you and me were just pleasantries but they require the same energy to process as the root question did what we are saying besties is that your politeness it is expensive and ai actually uses nearly two percent of global electricity
So every extra word in our query has an impact on the grid. Your politeness is adding to your carbon footprint. Now, we asked ChatGPT, what if all 400 million of your users typed please just once per day? And what did ChatGPT tell us, Jack? It would result in $80,000 of extra processing costs. That means one please per user per day, they lose 30 million bucks a year.
So every extra word in our query has an impact on the grid. Your politeness is adding to your carbon footprint. Now, we asked ChatGPT, what if all 400 million of your users typed please just once per day? And what did ChatGPT tell us, Jack? It would result in $80,000 of extra processing costs. That means one please per user per day, they lose 30 million bucks a year.
So every extra word in our query has an impact on the grid. Your politeness is adding to your carbon footprint. Now, we asked ChatGPT, what if all 400 million of your users typed please just once per day? And what did ChatGPT tell us, Jack? It would result in $80,000 of extra processing costs. That means one please per user per day, they lose 30 million bucks a year.
It's the most expensive etiquette ever. So besties, instead of chat GPT, could you please tell me all the emperors of Rome thanks? Simply say, all emperors of Rome. Those pleases, they ain't profitable. So mom, earmuffs if you're listening. But not saying please and thank you is actually the polite thing to do. Sam Allman made us do it.
It's the most expensive etiquette ever. So besties, instead of chat GPT, could you please tell me all the emperors of Rome thanks? Simply say, all emperors of Rome. Those pleases, they ain't profitable. So mom, earmuffs if you're listening. But not saying please and thank you is actually the polite thing to do. Sam Allman made us do it.
It's the most expensive etiquette ever. So besties, instead of chat GPT, could you please tell me all the emperors of Rome thanks? Simply say, all emperors of Rome. Those pleases, they ain't profitable. So mom, earmuffs if you're listening. But not saying please and thank you is actually the polite thing to do. Sam Allman made us do it.
For our first story, this one's wild. The most viral app right now is designed to help you cheat. Or as they put it, cheat on everything. Because using AI when you're not supposed to is cheating. For now. All right, let's start with some context, Jack. Yetis, a little storytelling for you.
For our first story, this one's wild. The most viral app right now is designed to help you cheat. Or as they put it, cheat on everything. Because using AI when you're not supposed to is cheating. For now. All right, let's start with some context, Jack. Yetis, a little storytelling for you.
For our first story, this one's wild. The most viral app right now is designed to help you cheat. Or as they put it, cheat on everything. Because using AI when you're not supposed to is cheating. For now. All right, let's start with some context, Jack. Yetis, a little storytelling for you.
Last week, the Columbia University student newspaper confirmed that two students had dropped out after facing suspensions. Those two students were Roy Lee and Neil Shanmugam. Not in trouble for protests or anything political, though. No, no, no, no, no, Jack. They were in trouble for cheating. More specifically...
Last week, the Columbia University student newspaper confirmed that two students had dropped out after facing suspensions. Those two students were Roy Lee and Neil Shanmugam. Not in trouble for protests or anything political, though. No, no, no, no, no, Jack. They were in trouble for cheating. More specifically...
Last week, the Columbia University student newspaper confirmed that two students had dropped out after facing suspensions. Those two students were Roy Lee and Neil Shanmugam. Not in trouble for protests or anything political, though. No, no, no, no, no, Jack. They were in trouble for cheating. More specifically...
They were in trouble for building an AI cheating tool and urging their classmates to use it. You see, besties, Roy and Neil created this cheating tool to help them ace their internship interviews. They were coding interviews with like all of tech. They had interviews with Amazon, Meta, TikTok, Capital One. They were looking for internships.
They were in trouble for building an AI cheating tool and urging their classmates to use it. You see, besties, Roy and Neil created this cheating tool to help them ace their internship interviews. They were coding interviews with like all of tech. They had interviews with Amazon, Meta, TikTok, Capital One. They were looking for internships.
They were in trouble for building an AI cheating tool and urging their classmates to use it. You see, besties, Roy and Neil created this cheating tool to help them ace their internship interviews. They were coding interviews with like all of tech. They had interviews with Amazon, Meta, TikTok, Capital One. They were looking for internships.
And Jack, how did it work when they did those interviews and they used their cheating tool? Oh, it worked. Those two students got offers from all those tech companies we just mentioned. And then they shared their wild stories of getting those job offers on X and LinkedIn, and that kind of went viral. And that's when they got an email from the student disciplinary board about that cheating app.
And Jack, how did it work when they did those interviews and they used their cheating tool? Oh, it worked. Those two students got offers from all those tech companies we just mentioned. And then they shared their wild stories of getting those job offers on X and LinkedIn, and that kind of went viral. And that's when they got an email from the student disciplinary board about that cheating app.
And Jack, how did it work when they did those interviews and they used their cheating tool? Oh, it worked. Those two students got offers from all those tech companies we just mentioned. And then they shared their wild stories of getting those job offers on X and LinkedIn, and that kind of went viral. And that's when they got an email from the student disciplinary board about that cheating app.
Barely Columbia University. Nah.