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The Tokenpocalypse Is Here: Companies Are Scrambling To Stop Spending So Much on AI | Leaked audio from Accenture says a big source of AI token ‘chewing’ is people just converting PDFs to presentatio… (www.404media.co)
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[–] b161@lemmy.blahaj.zone 21 points 21 hours ago (2 children)

Waiting for hackers to break into companies and not do a ransomware attack. Just run some scripts which innocently do shit like turn PDFs into PowerPoints and chew through those tokens.

[–] speculate7383@lemmy.today 19 points 20 hours ago (1 children)
[–] Washedupcynic@lemmy.ca 3 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

This made me laugh so hard.

[–] noughtnaut@lemmy.world 1 points 4 hours ago

Not affiliated with Chipotle. They will probably sue us. Worth it.

Wonderful. Just wonderful. 😁

[–] CADmonkey@lemmy.world 8 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

"Turn this PDF into a powerpoint, and then summarize it with a haiku"

[–] SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca 26 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago) (1 children)

File changes its form,

Pages slide into their frames,

Slides ready to show.