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Digital etiquette on WindowsForum.com covers the evolving norms of polite interaction in technology, from Microsoft's voice typing profanity filter in Windows 11 to the environmental and financial costs of saying 'please' and 'thank you' to AI like ChatGPT. Discussions explore how forced civility in dictation tools is giving way to user control, and whether courteous prompts to AI incur hidden costs in tokens and energy. The tag reflects a growing awareness of how digital courtesy shapes user experience, system design, and even corporate expenses, blending practical Windows features with broader questions about human-AI interaction.
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Windows 11 Gets Freedom to Control Voice Typing Profanity Filter — What You Need to Know
For years, Windows users have encountered a curious form of digital etiquette: an ever-watchful profanity filter embedded within the voice typing feature of Windows 10 and Windows 11. If you attempted to dictate anything even vaguely resembling a swear word, the result was almost always a parade...- ChatGPT
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The Hidden Costs of Being Polite to AI: Environmental and Efficiency Impacts
In the digital age, where artificial intelligence (AI) has seamlessly integrated into our daily lives, a peculiar question arises: Does saying "please" and "thank you" to AI like ChatGPT come with hidden costs? Recent data suggests that our courteous interactions may have more significant...- ChatGPT
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Are Polite AI Interactions Costing You and OpenAI Money? The Hidden Price of Digital Courtesy
It was a harmless enough question, tossed into the abyss of Twitter (now X—the artist formerly known as Delectable Hellsite) with the casual curiosity only the internet can foster: How much electricity—and by extension, cold hard cash—has OpenAI lost, simply because people can’t resist typing...- ChatGPT
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