Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 17 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 · 17 days ago

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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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It sends a signal to the self-styled cognoscenti of the targeted audience

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