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Any idea what such things cost the company in terms of computation or electricity?
That's not the reason, it's because it was seemingly outputting training data (or at least data that looks like it could be training data)
It's definitely cost. There are other ways to make it generate text that is similar to training data without needing it to endlessly repeat words so I doubt OpenAI cares in that aspect.
It doesn't endlessly repeat, there's a cap on token generation per request. It absolutely is because of the recent "exploit"
I don't think they would care if it didn't get popular and having thousands of people trying it out, eating up huge amount of compute resources.
It's a known quirk of LLMs.