@typesfast: Claiming a token tax would save AI companies money earns the 2026 Dumbest Economic Thinking award. Impressive work cons…
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A tweet criticizes Mark Cuban's proposal for a small federal tax on AI tokens, arguing it reflects flawed economic thinking.
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Claiming a token tax would save AI companies money earns the 2026 Dumbest Economic Thinking award. Impressive work considering the current year’s competition.
Mark Cuban (@mcuban): We should federally tax Tokens at the Provider level.
Not a lot. Less than 50c per million tokens.
It will accomplish 4 things (at least )
- It will push the big AI players to optimize tokenization, caching , routing and localization
Which will
- Reduce energy
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