General Discussion

many AI providers encourage corporations to track their employees' usage of AI via "tokens," as a supposed indicator of employee productivity, on the premise that the more the employee uses AI, the more productive they'll be.

The problem is that this system works better as a way to sell more AI than it does to enhance real productivity, since among other reasons, it's easily gamed – employees can "tokenmax" by submitting the same query multiple times or write simple programs to submit multiiple queries that may or may not be relevant to real productivity.