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Execs Confused and Horrified by the Huge AI Bills After Thinking They Could Replace Workers for Free (futurism.com)
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[–] SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world 208 points 1 month ago (21 children)
  1. Build up reliance on AI, which looks really cheap
  2. You can now replace employees with AI so fire away!
  3. You are now completely dependent on AI and a handful of employees
  4. AI company sees they have you and start jacking up rates. If you could afford paying for people before then you have the $ to pay high rates.
  5. Company now wonders why costs are back to where they were before and the AI isn't working out as expected.
[–] Xerxos@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Have you heard about "Tokenmaxxing"?

Since many AI companies didn't have a reasonable limit on the number of tokens for the amount of money you paid, companies started telling their employees to use as many tokens as possible. LLMs improve with more tokens (although there are diminishing returns).

So users tried to exploit the 'lure offer', and AI companies had to change the billing. It's still below the real cost, but no longer this insanely expensive option.

[–] SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Oh it was all over the tech news. Reddit was trying to guess the mystery company that got the massive bill.

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