Technology

Ever since LLMs where provided free to the public, I've been pen testing them. Not intentionally, I just like tech and have wanted to explore them. After getting all the info they're designed not to provide(which is so fucking easy, even on the most recent models that have corporate PC baked in to the core can't do shit) I turned to token burning. I could easily get 1M/24hr, but they've brought that cost down to like $0.10 so its not doing much anymore. I think I saw a model specific script that's doing 52k/min.

Point is it takes a day of coding and a shit PC to just sit there burning money directly out of their budget. It wouldnt take that many people committed to doing this to make AI less feasible.

https://archive.ph/20260625141336/https://www.404media.co/the-tokenpocalypse-is-here-companies-are-scrambling-to-stop-spending-so-much-on-ai/

I showed multiple morons how to doctor up their safety photos using copilot in hopes that it cost the company i contract for insane money. I dunno if its helping but I'm doing my part?

Wow, terrible news that companies that use ai are completely fcking themselves over. Whatever will we do to save the selfish prcks?

We got the hell we deseve :D

My work mandated we use the copilot. And the only thing I have found it really good at is converting or extracting information from a PDF to build me a spreadsheet. The native conversion programs in both Adobe and Excel suck so bad.

I have some suppliers who won't send a spreadsheet or CSV nothing that is data, only a PDF.

It's a stupid and computationally expensive way to do it but does solve a problem for me, a problem that doesn't need to exist at all but has frustrated me for years.

Two birds, one stone. I can honestly say to my boss that I am using the copilot for work, and it's a workaround for the insufficient reporting I get from our payroll provider in particular, but also some bulk invoices that are detailed and only come as PDF.

So yes I am in this group. I've only used it for file type conversion, and once to "write" a process document just so it would be formatted in Word, I went in and wrote over most of it.