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OpenAI's dot assistant burned 300K+ tokens in a day without a single prompt
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Geordie's tests recorded 155 activity traces and multiple subagents after dot was given read-only permissions.
Key facts
- But for the purposes of their discussion, roughly 200,000 tokens consumed by a dot based on OpenAI’s Astra model cost between $5 and $10
- One request to an LLM could cost 500 tokens and still be more valuable, from a business perspective, than another single request that cost 800,000 tokens
- Of the dot-in-testing’s 155 agent traces, at least 50 of those happened within a two-minute period, and the majority occurred within a couple of hours, according to Darley
- Compared to other personal agents, however, OpenAI’s dot “looked a little bit different,” Hanah-Marie Darley, Geordie chief AI officer, told The Register
Summary
If you use OpenAI's dot, don't be surprised if it consumes a lot of tokens on its own. Geordie has been testing the “always on” agentic assistant, dot, since OpenAI announced it in September, following in the footsteps of Meta Muse and Grok Bot. Compared to other personal agents, however, OpenAI’s dot “looked a little bit different,” Hanah-Marie Darley, Geordie chief AI officer, told The Register. For its testing, Darley gave dot read-only permissions, and she didn’t connect it to her personal apps, email, or other communications apps like Slack.