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Mystery company accidentally blew $500 million on Claude in a single month — failed to put usage limit on licenses for employees (www.tomshardware.com)
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[–] IllNess@infosec.pub 24 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Um.. is this Uber?

Why Uber has Already Burned Through its AI Budget

[–] Manjushri@piefed.social 16 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Could be. OP's article mentions Uber, but also mentions speculation that it may have been Amazon. Either way, I'm torn between laughing at corporate stupidity and crying over the enormous waste of resources consumed by the AI usage.

Recently, Uber's chief exec claimed there was no link between AI 'tokenmaxxing' and shipping useful products. It's a phenomenon perhaps most keenly reported at Amazon (which some X users have speculated may be the mystery company in question), where employees are said to have been caught inflating AI token consumption to meet internal targets. In fact, a Financial Times report on Thursday indicates Amazon has scrapped its internal AI usage leaderboard to stop employees carrying out needless tasks in order to climb the league table.

[–] IllNess@infosec.pub 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Imagine how many jobs all that money could have provided instead of laying off thousands of employees.

[–] zbyte64@awful.systems 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

A million dollars would be 10 teachers at 6 figures, could have been 5 thousand teachers for a year.

[–] logi@lemmy.world 3 points 19 hours ago

Or put that money in a fund and pay 300 teachers at 100K indefinitely from the returns.

[–] turtlesareneat@piefed.ca 5 points 1 day ago

Article strongly implies it's Amazon