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Meta caps internal AI token spending

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Re: Meta caps internal AI token spending

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"The leaderboard, which ranked employees and teams by token consumption, inadvertently incentivized usage volume over productive output." Who could possibly have predicted that happening?

I know right? What did the leadership think would happen when they give some of the worlds greatest software engineers (supportably), a easily quantifiable metric to target?

Re: Meta caps internal AI token spending

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I don't understand though. How will all the AI users replace all the non-AI users if they can't spend money that isn't theirs to win by default?

Don't worry, once we achieve post-scarcity they will have more tokens than they could ever dream for spending.

Re: Meta caps internal AI token spending

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I’d be curious to see the breakdown on spending by use case. I’ve heard it said that the majority of tokenmaxing comes from none technical uses like reading PDFs, creating PowerPoints, generating graphics/images… ect. But I’ve never heard any actual proof to that.

Re: Meta caps internal AI token spending

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That is insane. I'm sure companies will learn the absolute wrong lesson from this, and attempt to centralize and kneecap token usage.

Tokens are less valuable than the eyeball metric of the Dotcom era. At least the eyeballs were real then.

I'd argue most of the AI value is related to how 'Dead' the internet is.

Re: Meta caps internal AI token spending

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post #3

"The leaderboard, which ranked employees and teams by token consumption, inadvertently incentivized usage volume over productive output." Who could possibly have predicted that happening?

> Who could possibly have predicted that happening?

Charles Goodhart :-)

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