Unlimited AI tokens aren’t unlimited after all as US Army burns through supply | Troops received an email informing them that they were rapidly depleting their AI tokens
https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/07/us-army-faces-ai-use-limits-after-exhausting-years-supply-of-ai-tokens/
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victorz@lemmy.world · 92 pts · 11d
Companies have a hard time understanding the word "unlimited", and "perpetual", it seems. But they love to use them! And sell them!
thisbenzingring@lemmy.today · 53 pts · 11d
Bait and switch
It's a shame that the US government has watered down the enforcement of the meaning of dictionary definitions and what is allowed in advertising
pdxfed@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 11d
"Watered down" doesn't really do justice to the outright profiteering, grifting, theft and fraud taking place in just the oval office alone.
PattyMcB@lemmy.world · 24 pts · 11d
"Purchase" and "own" don't mean what you think either.
victorz@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 11d
It doesn't mean what they think, more like.
sundray@lemmus.org · 56 pts · 11d
“Please be 10x more productive.”
“Oh and also don’t use so many tokens.”
Town@lemmy.zip · 37 pts · 11d
No take!! Only throw!!
panda_abyss@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 11d
It’s simple, you’re allowed to be more productive but not cost more money.
morrowind@lemmy.ml · 29 pts · 11d
Lmao is this a joke? A single person could use this in a day
Abyssian@lemmy.world · 21 pts · 11d
"Count to one billion. Then count down from one billion to zero."
OwOarchist@pawb.social · 13 pts · 11d
"Then check your work to confirm that you didn't miss any numbers along the way."
black0ut@pawb.social · 8 pts · 11d
"don't use numbers, write the entire name of every number."
ToiletFlushShowerScream@piefed.world · 28 pts · 11d
I wonder how much it cost in AI use to bomb a school for young girls?
Murse@slrpnk.net · 22 pts · 11d
...not sure I buy the AI scapegoat in that situation. Knowing this administration, bombing the school was probably a direct order from the pedophile in chief himself, no computing shenanigans necessary.
anton@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 22 pts · 11d
I thought that was well known. AI in the military is for laundering decisions, not making them.
Murse@slrpnk.net · 8 pts · 11d
Well said.
...I fucking hate it.
Witchfire@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 11d
It's the modern Nuremberg Defense
Madison420@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 11d
Bingo. They hit a outdated target list because this admin doesn't value intelligence reports. The building was part of the base about a decade ago before Trump started weakening our already failing intelligence apparatus.
BlaestEgnen@feddit.dk · 4 pts · 11d
Then they used big data algorithms, to determine the most effective strike - Based on the old data.
Had a person review for 5 seconds and rubber stamped it. We know Israel uses big data/AI algorithms in Gaza, there's no reason to believe the US doesn't use them for analytical purposes for their strikes
carrylex@lemmy.world · 22 pts · 11d
Coincidence? I think not
PattyMcB@lemmy.world · 22 pts · 11d
Telcos and ISPs have been doing this for decades. Not surprising at all
StealthLizardDrop@piefed.social · 14 pts · 11d
what a disaster, there are plenty more girl schools to target 🎯
Trampampoline@sh.itjust.works · 7 pts · 11d
"Let's go milk the taxpayers for more!"
trolololol@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 11d
So which is is? Stupid article enabling stupid companies.
quick_snail@feddit.nl · 4 pts · 10d
This reminds me of the time that my company scaled up our servers so fast that AWS literally ran out of servers.