Amazon employees are "tokenmaxxing" due to pressure to use AI tools
arstechnica.com
Workers are using an internal AI tool to automate non-essential tasks.

Amazon has told employees that the AI token statistics would not be used in performance evaluations. But several staff members said they believed managers were monitoring the data.

  • Chulk@lemmy.mlEnglish
    105·
    12 hours ago

    This is going to all collapse so horrifically once AI companies change their payment model to token usage rather than a flat monthly fee. It’s already starting with Microsoft and Google. Anthropic is the last (and most consequential) nail in the coffin.

    Companies are building entire workflows around AI, but they are building them under the assumption that they won’t ever be charged per token.

      • Chulk@lemmy.mlEnglish
        28·
        11 hours ago

        Yeah I can’t say I feel bad for anyone involved. But something tells me the people who created this problem won’t be the ones suffering consequences.

        • Almacca@aussie.zoneEnglish
          61·
          10 hours ago

          Yeah, I’m sure they’ve got their golden parachutes ready, and will move on to the next scam.

    • GamingChairModel@lemmy.worldEnglish
      16·
      11 hours ago

      Companies are building entire workflows around AI, but they are building them under the assumption that they won’t ever be charged per token.

      Or worse, where the AI models underpinning a workflow breaks or degrades in some way to reduce token usage and then starts behaving in unexpected ways, in a process/workflow that assumes a particular type of behavior.