"So you're a software company" "That's right Dave" "and you spent $500 million on AI tokens in a month?" "Yep" "and you're using AI to...replace employees?" "that's right" "that's more than your entire annual SG&A, isn't it?" "uhuh."
Axios@axios.com · 2mo agoCompanies are starting to question whether soaring AI spending is delivering meaningful returns. An AI consultant tells us a client recently spent half a billion dollars in a month after failing to put usage limits on Claude licenses for employees.
!["One question that all of us have is: 'Is AI making science more efficient, helping us do better work, or even the same work, but faster, or is it just creating slop?' We have all of these papers coming out trying to track the use of [large language models] in science, but none of ther really tell us anything about the quality. This is one of the first papers that's telling us something about the quality of what's being produced with LLMs, and it's a signal of slop" said Misha Teplitskiy, a sociologist of science at the University of Michigan who has studied citation practices and AI use among academics but was not involved with the paper.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:wxa6hoxm7sypaom7lhjdzlgp/bafkreibgvez5koxnhjrblziec4juyts2biqhw73heuxfw4zv6ffkpznlfi)
