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Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 5 days ago

The Pulse: ‘Tokenmaxxing’ as a weird new trend

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The Pulse: ‘Tokenmaxxing’ as a weird new trend

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Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 5 days ago

At Meta, Microsoft, Salesforce and other large companies, devs are purposefully burning tokens (and money!) to inflate their AI usage and hit AI usage metrics which they treat as targets.

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Did you use AI to come up with the explanation?
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  No but I definitely should have haha. Would have improved my metrics.

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