Unlimited AI tokens aren’t unlimited after all as US Army burns through supply A little over a month after the Department of Defense (DOD) bragged that nearly half of its 3.5 million employees were using AI at work, members of the Army’s Combat Capabilities Development Command (DEVCOM) received an email informing them that they were burning through tokens, and needed to limit use.“Although the Army CIO announced in May 2026 that they were offering unlimited tokens, by mid-June the Army CIO pool was exhausted of tokens and had to re-establish limits,” the email reads. The email goes on to say that although the Army has chosen to renew token usage at “its current levels,” it’s unclear “if the Army CIO pool will be renewed after 1 Oct.”The Army uses Ask Sage, a multimodal generative AI platform where users can run different large language models (LLMs), including Alphabet’s Gemini, Meta’s Llama, and OpenAI’s ChatGPT. “Apparently the whole Army burned through the whole year of tokens for just one service,” says an Army employee who spoke to WIRED anonymously because they were not authorized to speak to the press.https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/07/us-army-faces-ai-use-limits-after-exhausting-years-supply-of-ai-tokens/
Ask Sage is used by the Army to “power its enterprise LLM workspace” and is “accredited for Controlled Unclassified Information.” It is also used by the DOD’s Chief Digital and AI Office (CDAO) for acquisitions. According to the Army’s website, Ask Sage was used to complete tasks like “reclassifying personnel descriptions, which involves defining and aligning job duties, experience and backgrounds.”The Army employee says that the Army has been pushing its workers to lean into using generative AI. Employees were given an allotment of at least 200,000 tokens per month, according to emails viewed by WIRED, and were automatically allocated more if they burned through their initial allotment. Employees who had signed up for Ask Sage but were not regularly using it would receive emails encouraging them to use more of their allocated tokens.In order to use Ask Sage, the Army had access to 100,000,000 tokens as part of an annual subscription to an “enterprise pack.” Tokens represent a unit of output, either in text or image, from an LLM. For the Ask Sage tool, a single token equates to about 3.7 characters, according to documents viewed by WIRED. The Defense Department burned through some 20 billion tokens per day during the 38-day Operation Epic Fury in Iran, according to Breaking Defense.
>>539420647The global brain drain this will cause is going to be insane. We're so close to entering a new dark ages.We already can't re-create half of that stuff, every new generation is dumber than millennials. It's over.
>>539420647@Grok Show me the schools in Iran with elementary students.
>>539420676>The Defense Department burned through some 20 billion tokens per day during the 38-day Operation Epic Fury in Iran, according to Breaking Defense.>how to open Hormuz strait >open strait how>how to one straight >hormussy cosplay
>>539420647Man, how did people war before they had the ZOGmachine telling them how right they are about everything stupid they do?
>>539420647What happened to local renderfarms? Before AI and anthropic was a thing, they still had huge datacenters on their own.Just genuinely curious about this situation because it's so ass backwards
What the fuck is an AI token
>>539421752It's a way of limiting use. Like the tickets at a fair, which don't evenly equate to money.
>>539421752A word is a token. Internal reasoning also takes up tokens btw
>>539421959So it's just more jewish tricks
>>539421752What, you think you can just ask our machine overlords questions whenever you want? You need to buy tokens and wait in line.
>>539421752Chuck E Cheese coin you insert into a giant machine to play War Simulator IRL Israely Best Goy Edition
Wait. Will Google stop offering ai answers if everyone just kept endlessly googling shit?
These tech billionaires need to be locked up. They're fucking insane and are going to destroy everything
>>539421752At a high level, a token is basically a word (or part of a word). AI strings them together to form responses. For example>In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.>[In][ ][the][ ][begin][ning][ ][God][ ][creat][ed][ ]the[ ][heav][ens][ ]and[ ]the[ ][earth][.]One sentence could be 23 tokens long. Billing is based on token usage (for example $0.002 per 1K tokens)Seeing companies run out of tokens means they are generating huge amounts of output
>>539422215Just type -ai you absolute muppet
>>539421959>>539422012>>539422050>>539422177These people are retarded>>539422010This person is kind of right. It's more like a single concept. It is word independent.It's used as a metric for output speed and throughput. Kind of like engine RPM.
>>539421507it didn't even work lol. the US failed to achieve its objectives.
>>539420647Its pretty fucking hilarious that with darpa developing the internetThey never thought to make a nationalized ai only for military use.Its also funny that they dont put datacenters on military bases or make them military projects.Everything is owned by a corporation in america,even the military.
>>539420676>@grok is this a school or a missile base?
>>539421752More crypto S coins
>>539422389Judaism son, America is gone and has been for quite a while
>>539422389You're retarded if you think the army is using the same consumer tier AI models
>>539422415>Oh you are absolutely right, my mistake. These cylinders are in fact Iranian girls and not as I previously stated anti aircraft missiles -- i hope this didnt cause any inconvenience
>FEEDS THE BEAST>DIES FOR ZOGhttps://m.youtube.com/watch?v=OHQRo3Uz_VQ&ra=m
>nearly half of its 3.5 million employees were using AI at workI wonder how many of these are just wagies spamming random bullshit at jeetgpt so their managers will be happy with line going up
>>539422504For things like aquisition, organizing, documenting, light technical stuff they absolutely would use it.Not for tactical decision making though
>>539422215"Google" owns the AI data centers and generators, silly. It's like asking, if you bought all the tickets at the fair, whether the owner could still ride the rides.
>>539422389Stop being antisemitic
>>539420647>CFO tells Finance department to utilize AI to sort, route, and forward incoming emails to the appropriate team/individual>eliminates the $80,000/year junior associate that handled this as well as assigned client work before AI>AI tokens cost $2.37 for each email forwarded >takes human less than 30 seconds to forward 1 email >quick math tells me CFO is complete retard>try to explain this AI email forwarding is equivalent of paying some $280/hour to route emails>CFO says, AI efficiency, synergy, cost saving, innovation platitudes>1 quarter passes>department budget analysis time>CFO was expecting at least $20k reduction in expenses>expenses increase by $125k due to forwarding email AI slop>CFO shitting his pants having a melty about how he's cooked at the next board meeting
>>539422504He's saying that instead of having their own resources they are having to pay corporations and buy tokens faggot
>>539420647>Apparently the whole Army burned through the whole year of tokens for just one serviceWhat did the taxpayer get for all those burnt tokens? Would like to see what all that token use converted into.
>>539423137AI images of buff Trump soaked in oils flexing his big muscles ooolala
>>539422357Not the point.
>>539422670It has to be taking up resources though.
>>539423247>AI images of buff Trump soaked in oils flexing his big muscles ooolala
why would the military use, train and feed publicly available AI companies??>goygpt, should we help israel by bombing iran?
>>539421480open bob and hormuz plz
>>539420676>The Defense Department burned through some 20 billion tokens per day during the 38-day Operation Epic Fury in IranI want off Mr. Bones' wild ride.
>>539421959>it’s a way to monetize useFixed it for you
>>539420647the US government should seize all AI companies in the US for national security.
How much is AI being subsidised?I fuck around with Claude and use 10 dollars worth of tokens.How much should that actually cost? Does anyone know?
>>539420647Whelp back to the goy slaves for the time being
>>539423880>How much should that actually cost? Does anyone know?Nothing? Pennies? Datacenters are a bit more intense but even electric bills are rhetorical nonsense everyone simply puts up with, not in the sense that it should be free but it should genuinely only be like 30 bucks instead of 200.
>>539421480Holy shit I completely forgot about le epic furry already. Feels like we’ve always been fighting this war now
>>539420647>run your army on AI>it ends up being managed by THE R*dditorplay stupid games win shit saar
>>539422504Dont most military computers use windows?
>>539423480This is the peak of the military industrial complex.
>>539423080Lol
does that mean they won't be posting their AI slop here anymore?
