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AI companies are switching to token based billing. Money is running out and heavy AI users are going to have to pay closer to the real price. People suddenly having to pay 10 times as much. You can just as well hire an intern for that money.
So you're saying AI is not replacing jobs at all?
Inference providers have been charging per token forever.
Honestly, there is little evidence that it actually has (successfully).
Of course, anything at a world wide scale will be true at some percentage; however, I doubt AI has actually replaced the labour of many. Even Meta gave up on pretending this and they are now firing people just to free money to pour on AI, not because AI is actually replacing those people