Let's burn some Tokens! - AI Chatbot Cost Exploitation as an Attack Vector
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Many companies ship AI chatbots as thin wrappers around commercial LLM APIs with zero cost controls. What if a tool behaved like an overly engaged, perfectly valid user - and just burned through their budget?
      • deleted@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        6 days ago

        Probably would create a demand and make their numbers go up.

        Sure they lose money at the end of the day but this could delay their ai bubble burst.

    • eleijeep@piefed.socialEnglish
      21·
      8 days ago

      For every $x of increased revenue that the AI company gets from their customer whose chatbot is being abused you would have to also use $x of tokens from the free trials of that same AI company.