Alex Karp compares tokenmaxxing to a porn addiction: People are just 'like sitting there all day'

• The outspoken CEO compared the practice to porn addiction.
• “People are just sitting there all day,” he said.

“All these things can be scaled in a very valuable but largely going to commodify way, but you can’t scale the taste of what is the business problem you want to have to solve and need to solve,” he said.

There are some problems that AI models can solve really well, Karp said. He gave an example of a prompt like, “I want to write a report on GDP growth in China.”

It’s the more complicated dilemmas where AI alone is not the answer, he said.

“‘I want to understand the specialized way I drill for oil and gas that’s both legal, ethical, and reduces the cost of production. I want to change the supply chain of my industry, whether that’s military or whether that’s building boxes or whether that’s cars.’ These things require actual, precise ongoing processes,” Karp said. “They are enhanced by large language models. They are not replaced by large language models.”