埃森哲内部数据曝光：真正烧token的不是工程师，而是把PDF折腾成markdown的同事。AI账单爆表，公司急了。
据404 Media报道，Accenture内部泄露音频显示，非工程师员工是token消耗的主要驱动者。Accenture代理AI战略负责人Justice Kwak表示，数据表明将PDF转成图片再转成markdown是最大的token消耗行为之一。客户群负责人Stuart Henderson在会议上对这一发现表示惊讶。这一现象反映企业正为控制AI使用成本而采取紧急措施。
The Tokenpocalypse Is Here: Companies Are Scrambling To Stop Spending So Much on AI
The Tokenpocalypse Is Here: Companies Are Scrambling To Stop Spending So Much on AI There's a fun anecdote from Accenture (apparently via leaked meeting audio recordings) in this 404 Media piece from June 24th: “We’re seeing from some of the data internally at least that it’s actually not our engineers that are driving the token consumption. It’s a lot of the non-engineers that are doing some of those behaviors [...] you were talking about,” Justice Kwak, Accenture’s agentic AI strategy lead, said [...] Stuart Henderson, Accenture’s client group lead, interrupts. He jokes he hopes Kwak didn’t just convert a PDF into images and then into markdown files. “I’m learning that’s one of the big token chewers,” Henderson says. “Turning PDFs into markdown: is that right?” That’s when Kwak says that’s what Accenture’s own data shows. Maybe if Accenture figure out that PDFs are a terrible medium for communicating information they'll be able to push that message out to the rest of the business world too! Via @404.media on TikTok Tags: pdf , markdown , ai , generative-ai , llms , ai-misuse