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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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[–] NewNewAugustEast@lemmy.zip 7 points 7 hours ago (2 children)

Really? Been a minute since I have done a presentation, but:

Pandoc PDF to Markdown.

Markdown to paste into your favorite HTML presentation tool.

Nobody is stupid enough to still use Powerpoint right? Right?

[–] MangoPenguin@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 5 hours ago

Or the 'modern workflow' version of tell the AI you want to convert the PDF, so it burns a bunch of tokens installing pandoc and converting it for you!

[–] PattyMcB@lemmy.world 5 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Unless mandated by the corporation (which are the same people forced to use AI for absolutely everything now)

[–] NewNewAugustEast@lemmy.zip 4 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Mandated to use PowerPoint? That would suck. Html markdown presentations are easily shared, require no additional software and make so much sense.

Oh right, "make sense". Nevermind, I get it. The corporate world has no time for that!

[–] InputZero@lemmy.world 3 points 5 hours ago (2 children)

Yup, can attest. It sucks. Unless the application is listed on our approved app list I can't even request it. Let alone the months it can take IT to get around to installing it for me.

[–] WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 hours ago

try a hedgedoc hosted by a random someone. maybe cryptpad.

[–] NewNewAugustEast@lemmy.zip 2 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

Any markdown render will do. VSCode, pandoc, heck many web pages, etc.

You just write in markdown.

Edit: unless you meant pandoc, but I don't think it requires an install either.