Tokenmaxxing scoreboards, the vegan LLM from before 1931, and 30% of the web is now AI-generated

About this episode

The episode discusses the trend of tokenmaxxing in tech companies and the implications of AI advancements.

Are you at the top of your company's tokenmaxxing leaderboard yet? This week on the Friday Deploy, Andrew and Ben explore the controversial trend of "tokenmaxxing" sweeping through tech giants like Meta and Disney, as well as GitHub Copilot's shift to usage-based pricing that signals the end of the cheap AI era. The hosts also break down a terrifying incident where a rogue AI agent wiped out a production database and examine a new "vegan" language model trained exclusively on pre-1931 histori...

People in this episode

Hosts: Andrew, Ben

Topics covered

• tokenmaxxing
• AI trends
• usage-based pricing
• rogue AI incidents
• language models
• technology

Keywords

• tokenmaxxing
• AI-generated content
• GitHub Copilot
• usage-based pricing
• rogue AI
• language model
• technology trends

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Meta, Disney, GitHub Copilot

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