Token Inflation: How Dishonest Providers Can Overcharge for Large Language Model Usage 事件

Token Inflation: How Dishonest Providers Can Overcharge for Large Language Model Usage arXiv:2605.30040v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Per-token billing is now the standard pricing model for commercial large language models (LLMs), so the honesty of reported token counts directly affects what users pay. We show that this kind of billing is hard to audit by design: providers hide the model, the tokenizer, and the execution to protect their IP, mitigate jailbreaks, and preserve user privacy, wh