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by glenneroo 265 days ago
I don't know if the site is just broken for me at the moment, but this has used to track how much people were costing the companies (based on tokens per $ if I remember correctly): https://www.viberank.app/

One user in particular ran up a $50k bill for 1 month of usage, while paying $200 for the month: https://bsky.app/profile/edzitron.com/post/3lwimmfvjds2m

Plenty of people are to blow through resources pretty quickly, especially when you have non-deterministic output and have to hit "retry" a few times, or back-and-forth with the model until you get what you want, whereby each request adds to total tokens used in the interaction.

AI companies have been trying to clamp down but so far unsuccessful, and it may never be completely possible without alienating all of their users.