He continued by stating that American enterprises are quietly "livid," as "they are paying for tokens that create no value," and that the AI players "are stealing [their customers'] weights and alpha."

Karp claims that frontier labs are double-dipping by both selling customers LLM utilization all while using their data for improving said LLMs — in other words, the risk for a customer is that they're arguably teaching the bots' abilities and information that could get their business easily replicated and potentially replaced.

He puts the value of a token in question by using an old business analogy: if the frontier players supposedly generate so much value for their customers, why don't they treat it as an investment and charge a percentage of said value?

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/palantir-ceo-alex-karp-claims-ai-companies-are-stealing-customers-data-while-charging-them-for-unproductive-tokens-says-livid-businesses-are-paying-for-tokens-that-create-no-value

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5879258&forum_id=2"#49976615)