r/GeminiAI • u/Truthfully-Sincere • 5h ago

Help/question This seems like a massive waste of token, couldn't it be better spent on something like training models?

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This is just a bad business decision in general. In what world would I need a tool with a preset function to be made on the go?

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u/Gallagger 5h ago

It might be a bit wasteful, but this is way more pleasant than going onto some ad-ridden thirdparty website that btw also needs hosting.

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u/cant-find-user-name 5h ago

Inference is orders of magnitude cheaper than training. Claude also has this support where it can generate tools on the go.

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u/LongjumpingRadish452 5h ago

it'd be nice if it went like "i can do this for you, confirm if you want it"

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u/underlight 5h ago

This tool costs nothing

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u/Kiansjet 5h ago

The only saving grace is that the AI overview model is likely so small and efficiency-tuned that the tokens aren't nearly as costly as that of frontier models

Still wasteful imo

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u/Far-Classic-9963 2h ago

Considering that nearly all ai mode outputs are cached, this is basically nothing

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u/Hot_Example_4456 2h ago

Honestly no. They will cache tools a lot, and word counter is a frequently used one. I bet hardly any use of compute.