Identification of the need:
In many interactions with ChatGPT, users respond with simple gratitude messages like “thank you” after receiving a helpful answer. While this is part of polite human interaction, it typically does not require further dialogue.
Problem:
Even a simple reply like “thank you” triggers the full AI model to process and generate a response. This consumes unnecessary computational resources and energy, contributing to environmental impact and operational costs, especially at scale.
Proposed solution:
Introduce a dedicated “Thank You” button alongside existing feedback buttons. This would allow users to express gratitude in a lightweight and sustainable way, without initiating a new prompt-response cycle.
Benefits:
• Significantly reduces energy consumption and processing overhead for low-value prompts;
• Preserves the human element of politeness in a simple, elegant way;
• Provides OpenAI with useful metrics on user satisfaction without extra computational load.
This small design improvement could meaningfully contribute to both environmental sustainability and platform efficiency. Thank you for considering this suggestion!