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A lawyer was fined $5,000 for citing witnesses that AI invented
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The useful way to compare AI costs is per correct answer, not per token
AWS· 11 SepAWS published an open-source harness that compares models on what work actually costs: cost per correct answer, and the cost of an agent's full run, not dollars per million tokens.
Our read: Ask every vendor for this number. A cheaper model that needs two attempts is the expensive one.
- Price your automation on cost per correct result, not the sticker price per token.
- Run your own most common task on a cheaper model before paying flagship rates for it.
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