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"Some time earlier this year, an employee at tech giant Meta built a system to
track how much each staff member was using artificial intelligence (AI).
Named “Claudeonomics” after the Claude chatbot, the system created a
leaderboard ranked by the number of tokens each user was exchanging with AI
models, with leaders given titles such as “Token Legend”. (Tokens are tiny
chunks of text, each around four characters long, that language models use for
processing.)
Meta is not alone in its fascination with “tokenmaxxing”: AI labs OpenAI and
Anthropic, e-commerce company Shopify, and tech investment firm Sequoia capital
are all reportedly monitoring AI usage and rewarding heavy users, some of whom
burn billions of tokens in a week.
Reducing a person’s performance to a single metric can be appealing for
management in large corporations. But the choice of what to measure isn’t a
neutral one – and if we’re not careful, it can start to rewrite our vision of
what we actually value."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
