Palantir Technologies Inc. (NASDAQ:PLTR) CEO Alex Karp has a colorful comparison for corporate AI deployments: pornography.

In an appearance on Thursday on the TBPN podcast, Karp argued that most companies aren’t using artificial intelligence to solve real business problems, they’re using it the way someone scrolls an adult site at 2 a.m.

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Karp claims that Palantir has developed an internal product specifically designed to break enterprises of what he calls “token maxing”, the compulsive overconsumption of AI tokens that looks like work but delivers nothing. 

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The internal name isn’t something he’d say on air, but the concept he described freely: a tool to wean companies off what he called “the masturbation thing.”

“People are just, like, sitting there all day… enterprises are, like, ‘Okay we believe this will create value, but we cannot have people just ...