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[–] piccolo@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Dont they charge be input tokens? E.g. your prompt. Not the output.

[–] MotoAsh@piefed.social 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

I think many of them do, but there are also many "AI" tools that will automatically add a ton of stuff to try and make it spit out more intelligent responses, or even re-prompt the tool multiple times to try and make sure it's not handing back hallucinations.

It really adds up in their attempt to make fancy autocomplete seem "intelligent".

[–] piccolo@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Yes, reasoning models... but i dont think they would charge on that... that would be insane, but AI executives are insane, so who the fuck knows.

[–] MotoAsh@piefed.social 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Not the models. AI tools that integrate with the models. The "AI" would be akin to the backend of the tool. If you're using Claude as the backend, the tool would be asking claude more questions and repeat questions via the API. As in, more input.