HOGELAND'S BAD HISTORY

"Hi, William!" Part Two

How We Trained Ourselves To Become the Largest of the Large Language Models (A Bad History)

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William Hogeland
Mar 12, 2026
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This is the second entry in a series. Part One here.

Part Two
The CEO’s

Sam Altman, owner of Open AI, has reportedly said that when users of his chatbot, ChatGPT, use terms like “please” and “thank you” during interactions with the bot, it costs his company tens of millions of dollars in annual electricity costs. At first I thought he was trying to ge…

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