Token 消耗危机来临：企业正争相削减 AI 开支

The Tokenpocalypse Is Here: Companies Are Scrambling To Stop Spending So Much on AI

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埃森哲内部数据显示，token 消耗的主要推手并非工程师，而是大量非工程人员。该公司智能体 AI 战略负责人透露，将 PDF 转为图片再转成 markdown 文件是最大的 token 消耗源之一。企业正因此争相控制 AI 相关支出。

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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!