Sam Altman calls tokens 'a kind of fake unit' that doesn't measure business value
rohanpaul_ai · x · 2026-11-02
In a 'Cheeky Pint' interview, Sam Altman argued tokens are 'a kind of fake unit' — countable, but telling a business nothing about what it got for its money. His only defense is information-theoretic: models still stream noise alongside signal, and once that waste is removed, token counts approach Shannon's floor for carrying actual information — a fundamental challenge to per-token pricing.
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