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by Someone 12 hours ago
Even if you specifically train the model on producing shorter answers, I would think producing good short answers would require more resources just as it does for humans (https://quoteinvestigator.com/2012/04/28/shorter-letter/: “If I Had More Time, I Would Have Written a Shorter Letter”)

If so, charging per output token is the wrong incentive.