• leftzero@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    1 day ago

    Unless they somehow manage to bill by IP.

    That might actually be their strategy to pay for all that debt: make every customer’s router stealthily consume trillions of tokens and send them an invoice.

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      14 hours ago

      That would be fraud. We already have laws against someone doing work you didn’t ask them to do then trying to charge you for it

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        12 hours ago

        Of course it’s fraud. Their whole business model is fraud and theft.

        But when have the AI companies ever respected any laws?