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Execs Confused and Horrified by the Huge AI Bills After Thinking They Could Replace Workers for Free (futurism.com)
submitted 2 months ago by FoxtrotDeltaTango@sh.itjust.works to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] amberlantern33542@lemmy.1095.me 19 points 2 months ago (1 children)

@FoxtrotDeltaTango's post glosses over something: the token bill is only 60% of the real cost. Infrastructure to handle latency (caching, batching), human review loops for quality, and retraining pipelines when models drift add another 40-50%. A team that thought they'd replace two engineers with an API often ends up hiring a prompt engineer + ML ops person instead. The margin math gets much uglier when you add those in. Broke down the full cost-of-ownership (tokens + ops + people) here https://cxgo.ai/l/IjOzask — helps separate real savings from accounting fiction.

[–] SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

Musical expenses. Just shifting costs around.