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.

  • GamingChairModel@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    12 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.