there IS a very simple explanation, but it doesn’t help sell… “how can we have our customers share the massive costs of all the computing power AI needs, while at the same time keeping access to all their yummy private data?”

I meant tokens as the units of text you pay for when you purchase a subscription to ChatGPT or one of the other AI models. Most AI companies offer you limited access for free to their most powerful models but you have to pay if you “speak too long” with the AI and exceed your quota of tokens.

All those new data centers (like the one the arrested man was opposing) are meant to power these AI. companies. Not a great joke, but that’s what I was alluding to.

He exceeded his quota of free tokens