Right. A platform who makes money the more you have to use it is definitely optimizing to get you the right answer in as few tokens as possible.

There is absolutely no incentive to do that, for any of these companies. The incentive is to make the model just bad enough you keep coming back, but not so bad you go to a competitor.

We've already seen this play out. We know Google made their search results worse to drive up and revenue. Exact same incentives are at play here, only worse.

Please go read how the Anthropic max plan works.

IF I USE LESS TOKENS, ANTHROPIC GETS MORE MONEY! You are blindly pattern matching to "corporation bad!" without actually considering the underlying structure of the situation. I believe there's a phrase for this to do with probabilistic avians?