Opaque AI Model Throttling Degrades User Experience and Backfires on Providers
AI providers reportedly throttle model quality during high load by quantizing, shrinking context, or downgrading tiers, but this degradation causes users to re-ask questions more often, increasing rather than reducing server demand. Developers and users lack visibility into when and why this throttling occurs, undermining trust in AI service reliability.
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