Companies discover AI is expensive when employees actually use it

The artificial intelligence revolution has reached the point where management begs employees to stop feeding PDFs into the robot so it can burp out PowerPoint decks nobody wanted in the first place.

The entire AI bubble is built on the idea that someday, somehow, customers will pay for the insane costs of using AI. This shows the system collapse is already here. The customers want to cut back. Once again, AI is a money incinerator.

The news highlights a major shift in the tech industry and other companies that use AI: the wave of uninhibited AI growth is over. Some AI providers like GitHub are now charging customers per token rather than a flat subscription fee, leading some companies to burn through their tokens. Uber recently capped employees' use of AI tools like Claude Code and Cursor; that came after Uber told employees to use AI as much as possible and Uber's CTO said the company had blown its entire AI budget in four months. And Accenture itself reportedly started requiring senior staff to start using AI or risk losing out on promotions. 404Media

Faced with actually paying for it, corporations want to cut AI costs. When the investor capital is gone, so go the non-consensual deep fakes.

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