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The Tokenpocalypse Is Here: Companies Are Scrambling To Stop Spending So Much on AI | Leaked audio from Accenture says a big source of AI token ‘chewing’ is people just converting PDFs to presentatio… (www.404media.co)
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[–] weew@lemmy.ca 23 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

The funny thing is that even with this massive overspending, AI companies aren't profitable. They need these companies to spend 10x the amount per token, and 10x the number of tokens. Probably 10x the number of customers too.

Burning energy, draining water, spending massive cash so they can lose money on a product that doesn't even do its job. How the hell has the bubble not popped yet...

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 2 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

and building more and more datacenters, replacing AI chips faster and faster, the more people use it, which of course is wasting a ton of money.