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INSIDE THE AI INDUSTRY'S MOST EXPENSIVE MISTAKE

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An internal leaderboard at Meta that ranked employees on token usage revealed that, over a 30-day period, the company used around 60 trillion tokens. It is estimated that all books published amount to about 20 trillion tokens. The AI industry seems obsessed with token spend, but the metric is easily hacked, and more token use doesn't mean more value is provided.