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Reaction converging Character.ai's Bankruptcy Documents Show the Economics of AI Don't Work Policy & governance · 4 attributable reactions
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New AI field signal Development 3h ago
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companies scramble cut AI token spending

The Tokenpocalypse Is Here: Companies Are Scrambling To Stop Spending So Much on AI

11 experts across 6 network communities independently surfaced this.

11 experts 6 communities 1 sources clustered
Simon Willison Mar Hicks Olivia Guest 404 Media Joseph Cox Jason Koebler Scott McGrath Dare Obasanjo +3

“TIL from https://t.co/349k1txWLV that a material chunk of Accenture's token spend is non-engineers using LLMs to convert PDFs into markdown! https://t.co/lWkPqhJ0QI”

“Companies encouraged employees to use AI and now they’re spending gobs of cash on tokens for employees to convert documents to PDF😅 “Leaked audio from Accenture says a big source of AI token ‘chewing’ is people just converting PDFs to presentation slides” w…”

2 experts discussed this · 2 posts
404 Media: Leaked audio from Accenture says a big source of AI token ‘chewing’ is people just converting PDFs to presentation slides. They're not the only company now telling staff to slow down on AI use @evy…
Teresa Heffernan: Leaked audio from Accenture says a big source of AI token ‘chewing’ is people just converting PDFs to presentation slides. They're not the only company now telling staff to slow down on AI use @evy…
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Established Agents & robotics Development 3d ago
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LLM robot prison roleplay debate

Someone ‘Torturing’ LLMs in a Robot Prison Has Triggered the Dumbest Debate in AI Yet

4 experts across 2 network communities independently surfaced this.

4 experts 2 communities 1 sources clustered
404 Media Joseph Cox Jason Koebler Meredith Martin

“The "AI Torture Chamber" has opened an upsetting and absurd window into the effective altruist obsession with "model welfare." www.404media.co/someone-tort...”

“People who believe LLMs are conscious are having one of the biggest AI meltdowns yet because someone is running a Saw-like torture chamber for LLMs on GitHub. Just before we published, GitHub took it down. GitHub hasn't said why www.404media.co/someone-tort...”

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Jason Koebler: i regret to inform you that people have absolutely lost it www.404media.co/someone-tort...
Jason Koebler: for real though the "model welfare" people who are worried about the ethical treatment of nonsentient computer programs are absolutely deranged, very well-funded, and extremely dangerous; is also t…
404 Media: i regret to inform you that people have absolutely lost it www.404media.co/someone-tort...
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Established AI field signal Development 4d ago
⚡ 8 h early
Character.ai bankruptcy documents reveal

Character.ai's Bankruptcy Documents Show the Economics of AI Don't Work

9 experts across 3 network communities independently surfaced this.

9 experts 3 communities 1 sources clustered
Alex Hanna Shannon Vallor 404 Media Joseph Cox Jason Koebler Alexander Howard Social Media Lab Dr Keith Wilson 🏳️‍🌈 +1
How the network is reacting 3 experts are independently emphasizing policy & governance.
Reaction converging

Policy & governance

3 experts

Rules, institutions and accountability.

“Character[.]ai financials: - $13.8m on compute a month, then $10m a month - bringing in $2.8m in subscriptions, sometimes less than $1m - revenue from all sources $5.3m a month Its bankruptcy shows the economics of AI don't work: www.404media.co/character-a…”

Concern & critique

1 expert

Risks, limits and unintended consequences.

“The circumstances of CharacterAI’s bankruptcy “are exactly what critics of AI have been saying would happen”— @jasonkoebler.bsky.social They, lit money on fire running its product, did not earn much revenue, & faced huge legal fees after causing harm. Enshi…”

2 experts discussed this · 2 posts
Joseph Cox: Character[.]ai financials: - $13.8m on compute a month, then $10m a month - bringing in $2.8m in subscriptions, sometimes less than $1m - revenue from all sources $5.3m a month Its bankruptcy shows…
SwiftOnSecurity: GenZ has no money to goon
Dr J. Rosenbaum: Character[.]ai financials: - $13.8m on compute a month, then $10m a month - bringing in $2.8m in subscriptions, sometimes less than $1m - revenue from all sources $5.3m a month Its bankruptcy shows…
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Established AI field signal Development 3d ago
⚡ 4 h early
Accenture cuts Claude monthly spend limit

Accenture Tells Employees They Can Now Spend Only $29 on Claude Per Month

6 experts across 3 network communities independently surfaced this.

6 experts 3 communities 1 sources clustered
Olivia Guest 404 Media Joseph Cox Sung Kim Eileen Clancy 🧿 Karen Gregory

“If an employee goes over the allocated $29 workers have to find a specific project or team (called a Work Breakdown Structure or WBS at Accenture) to fund the rest of the usage. www.404media.co/accenture-te...”

“New: Accenture has told employees it will only fund $29 per month of Claude use. Meaning that employees who often spend as much as $1,000 a month are now scrambling to find ways to keep access to the tool. A sign of the continuing crack down of AI www.404me…”

2 experts discussed this · 2 posts
Joseph Cox: New: Accenture has told employees it will only fund $29 per month of Claude use. Meaning that employees who often spend as much as $1,000 a month are now scrambling to find ways to keep access to t…
e.w. niedermeyer: seems like poor leadership, perhaps they could hire some kind of business consultancy to help provide a more consistent management structure
404 Media: New: Accenture has told employees it will only fund $29 per month of Claude use. Meaning that employees who often spend as much as $1,000 a month are now scrambling to find ways to keep access to t…
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Established Culture, work & education Development 20d ago
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OpenAI AI trainers fired using AI

People Training OpenAI’s AI Fired for Using AI to Train the AI

8 experts across 2 network communities independently surfaced this.

8 experts 2 communities 1 sources clustered
Alex Hanna 404 Media Joanna Bryson Carissa Véliz Joseph Cox Jason Koebler Karen Gregory Nathalie Maréchal, PhD

“OpenAI has thousands and thousands of contractors helping improve the company's AI models. Multiple contractors have been fired for using AI to train the AI. www.404media.co/people-train...”

“At least we get plenty of irony these days. #AIEthics Very revealing quote: “I felt no joy in the work or that I was contributing to society in any way.” www.404media.co/people-train...”

2 experts discussed this · 2 posts
Joseph Cox: New: OpenAI has thousands of contractors improving its AI, including reading ChatGPT users' prompts We've found many of those contractors have been fired for themselves using AI to train the AI. Pe…
Alex Hanna: New: OpenAI has thousands of contractors improving its AI, including reading ChatGPT users' prompts We've found many of those contractors have been fired for themselves using AI to train the AI. Pe…
Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫: Yum!
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Established AI field signal Development 6d ago
⚡ 5 h early
police AI child photos predator sting

Cops Used AI Generated Photos of a Child to Lure Out a Suspected Predator

2 experts are actively discussing the implications.

3 experts 1 community 1 sources clustered
404 Media Joseph Cox Jason Koebler

“Christopher Thomas Mertens, a high school maintenance worker, was arrested after attempting to meet up with an AI persona that he thought was a 15 year old boy.”

“Cops used AI images to pose as a kid to lure out a suspected child predator. Was done by a unit called the Livonia Undercover Resistance to Exploitation Unit, or LURE. www.404media.co/undercover-c...”

2 experts discussed this · 3 posts
Joseph Cox: Cops used AI images to pose as a kid to lure out a suspected child predator. Was done by a unit called the Livonia Undercover Resistance to Exploitation Unit, or LURE. www.404media.co/undercover-c...
Sam Cole: yeah, we name a few other examples in the story too. it's wild that this one is just the latest
Sam Cole: I remember when that happened thinking it was so sci-fi 💀
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