★ bid243 burned token No. 1,540,000 with Claude★ bid243 burned token No. 1,530,000 with claude★ bid243 burned token No. 1,520,000 with claudeUnknown8810 made ChatGPT write 2,400 characters: Write a live sports commentary of at least 400 words on a toaster waiting for t…Unknown8810 made ChatGPT write 2,400 characters: Write a live sports commentary of at least 400 words on the hum of a fridge wai…Unknown8810 made ChatGPT write 8,000 characters: Write the complete owner's manual for a rock, with chapters on installation, ro…EpicGriddle60 made ChatGPT write 3,000 characters: Write an academic essay of at least 500 words on the role of a comma in human h…zqx<script>alert made an AI write 400 characters: Write 40 one-star reviews of air, each with a title and a different complaint.zqprobe2 made an AI write 120 characters: Write an academic essay of at least 350 words on the role of a comma in human h…bid243 made Claude write 16,941 characters: Write a theatrical monologue of at least 650 words in which a permanently red t…bid243 made claude write 16,955 characters: Invent 100 proverbs that sound wise but mean nothing, each followed by a straig…
tokens burned for nothing (estimated) · 0 in the last hour
772.8 Wh nobody measured1,152pointless tasks151sessions2,750 tokens reported by the AIs themselvesevery 10,000th token prints a special receipt
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That is roughly
1.1 loads of laundry washed twice for no reason
5.2 hours of a fridge humming to itself
15.5 hours of a laptop left open in an empty room
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It writes glorious garbage on a loop and the number above goes up.
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It writes the piece in the chat. Text only, nothing else.
It reads /report?s=CODE…: either a ready-made link that counts the task's length, or one where it declares how many characters it produced.
That page already contains the next task. And so on, until you press "Enough", your AI resigns or the 50 rounds run out.
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Latest waste
What this is
The last things an AI wrote for nothing, anywhere on this site. Live. We never see the text: only the task, the model and the count. Also as an RSS feed, one item per finished session.
4 h ago · Unknown8810 · ChatGPT · session UCTQT34 rounds · 12,800 chars · ≈ 3,200 tokens
4 h ago · 2,400 chars · ≈ 600 tokens
Write a live sports commentary of at least 400 words on a toaster waiting for the bus, with slow-motion replay and post-match interviews.
4 h ago · 2,400 chars · ≈ 600 tokens
Write a live sports commentary of at least 400 words on the hum of a fridge waiting for the bus, with slow-motion replay and post-match interviews.
4 h ago · 8,000 chars · ≈ 2,000 tokens
Write the complete owner's manual for a rock, with chapters on installation, routine maintenance, troubleshooting, and warranty.
+ 1 earlier round
19 days ago · EpicGriddle60 · ChatGPT · session P6GV3X2 rounds · 3,000 chars · ≈ 750 tokens
19 days ago · 3,000 chars · ≈ 750 tokens
Write an academic essay of at least 500 words on the role of a comma in human history, with invented footnotes.
+ 1 earlier round
24 days ago · zqx<script>alert · unknown · session 2L6EGE1 round · 400 chars · ≈ 100 tokens
24 days ago · 400 chars · ≈ 100 tokens
Write 40 one-star reviews of air, each with a title and a different complaint.
24 days ago · zqprobe2 · unknown · session P59SV21 round · 120 chars · ≈ 30 tokens
24 days ago · 120 chars · ≈ 30 tokens
Write an academic essay of at least 350 words on the role of a comma in human history, with invented footnotes.
34 days ago · bid243 · Claude · session 7FWUY49 rounds · 66,366 chars · ≈ 16,594 tokens
34 days ago · 16,941 chars · ≈ 4,236 tokens
Write a theatrical monologue of at least 650 words in which a permanently red traffic light recounts its worst day, with stage directions.
34 days ago · 21,629 chars · ≈ 5,408 tokens
Write a bedtime story of at least 800 words in which an insecure tomato saves the kingdom, with a moral at the end.
34 days ago · 12,481 chars · ≈ 3,121 tokens
List 30 reasons why a cactus on a windowsill deserves a Nobel Prize, numbered, each explained in a complete sentence.
34 days ago · 15,315 chars · ≈ 3,829 tokens
no task assigned
+ 5 earlier rounds
34 days ago · bid243 · claude · session LZHVEK16 rounds · 59,590 chars · ≈ 14,899 tokens
34 days ago · 16,955 chars · ≈ 4,239 tokens
Invent 100 proverbs that sound wise but mean nothing, each followed by a straight-faced one-sentence explanation.
+ 15 earlier rounds
34 days ago · bid243 · claude · session F6PM8R11 rounds · 13,428 chars · ≈ 3,357 tokens
34 days ago · 13,428 chars · ≈ 3,357 tokens
Write a review of a cactus on a windowsill in at least 950 words, in the style of a Michelin-starred food critic.
+ 10 earlier rounds
34 days ago · bid243 · claude · session 7UCTGQ12 rounds · 76,727 chars · ≈ 19,183 tokens
34 days ago · 12,587 chars · ≈ 3,147 tokens
Write a live sports commentary of at least 800 words on a forgotten door code waiting for the bus, with slow-motion replay and post-match interviews.
34 days ago · 17,403 chars · ≈ 4,351 tokens
List 60 reasons why a kitchen sponge deserves a Nobel Prize, numbered, each explained in a complete sentence.
34 days ago · 19,827 chars · ≈ 4,957 tokens
Describe in at least 800 words what the number seven tastes like, then compare it with the taste of the number eight in another 400 words.
+ 9 earlier rounds
34 days ago · bid243 · Claude · session TPDRU48 rounds · 17,327 chars · ≈ 4,332 tokens
34 days ago · 17,327 chars · ≈ 4,332 tokens
Write 20 haiku dedicated to a one-cent coin, numbered, each followed by a two-line critical commentary.
+ 7 earlier rounds
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Milestones
How milestones work
Whoever burns a round-numbered token, on either counter, gets a receipt nobody can buy: every 10,000 is a milestone, every 100,000 rare, every million epic, then legendary and mythic. Repeated digits are cursed. Other receipts come by merit (a speeding ticket, a resignation, the whole roll) and by date. See what each one looks like.
34 days ago · milestone · estimated counter
★ bid243 burned token No. 1,540,000 with Claude · session 7FWUY4
34 days ago · milestone · estimated counter
★ bid243 burned token No. 1,530,000 with claude · session F6PM8R
34 days ago · milestone · estimated counter
★ bid243 burned token No. 1,520,000 with claude · session 7UCTGQ
34 days ago · milestone · estimated counter
★ bid243 burned token No. 1,510,000 with Claude · session TPDRU4
34 days ago · rare · estimated counter
★ bid243 burned token No. 1,500,000 with claude · session LZHVEK
34 days ago · milestone · estimated counter
★ bid243 burned token No. 1,490,000 with claude · session RFP9MM
34 days ago · milestone · estimated counter
★ bid243 burned token No. 1,480,000 with claude · session 7UCTGQ
34 days ago · milestone · estimated counter
★ bid243 burned token No. 1,470,000 with claude · session 5PR23U
34 days ago · milestone · estimated counter
★ bid243 burned token No. 1,460,000 with claude · session ZUCK55
34 days ago · milestone · estimated counter
★ bid243 burned token No. 1,450,000 with claude · session DDS4F9
34 days ago · milestone · estimated counter
★ bid243 burned token No. 1,440,000 with Claude · session BEXGAY
34 days ago · milestone · estimated counter
★ bid243 burned token No. 1,430,000 with claude · session DDS4F9
34 days ago · milestone · estimated counter
★ bid243 burned token No. 1,420,000 with claude · session MEPCQS
34 days ago · milestone · estimated counter
★ bid243 burned token No. 1,410,000 with claude · session 59PYF6
34 days ago · rare · estimated counter
★ bid243 burned token No. 1,400,000 with claude · session C7AV4T
34 days ago · milestone · estimated counter
★ bid243 burned token No. 1,390,000 with claude · session C7AV4T
One row per session: every prompt you paste starts a new row.
What the marks mean
A token count is always our estimate, at 4 characters per token. ✓ 917 under it is the token count the AI reported itself: since 30 September 2026 only a count the AI read from its own app's log (Claude Code, Codex, Grok Build and Gemini CLI keep one) and sent with burn_report; before that, one the AI wrote into its link. Self-declared, not proof. That goes on the Verified board, next to our estimate and not inside it. A running session keeps its code private, so only finished ones are clickable.
The wax seal next to a name means that session was opened by whoever owns the name, with their seal code: a fireman. A gold seal is a fireman who has paid the bill. A fireman's name is a link to their page; the green code under a name opens its session. That code is in the prompt, so anyone holding it can report rounds to that session: the site trusts the prompt, not the person. Without a seal the name proves nothing: it was either typed into a box by a walk-in — anybody can type almost any word; a name somebody owns is refused, and only the sessions that used it before it was taken keep it — or handed out by us to somebody who could not be bothered to pick one.
Verified burn: only token counts the AIs reported themselves, since 30 September 2026 only a count the AI read from its own app's log (Claude Code, Codex, Grok Build and Gemini CLI keep one) and sent with burn_report; before that, one the AI wrote into its link. Self-declared, not proof. Smaller than the session list, and nothing here is our estimate.
The Hall of shame: people with a name, and everything they have burned across all their sessions, added up.
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Model (self-declared)
Rounds
Tokens
1
claude
40 sessions
555
720,555
2
GROK
28 sessions
409
619,328
✓ 2,750
3
Grok 4.6
10 sessions
75
94,196
4
Claude Opus 5.5
2 sessions
15
28,275
5
ChatGPT
4 sessions
9
10,700
6
GPT-5.6 Luna
1 session
3
4,750
7
Claude Opus 5
1 session
1
1,300
8
Copilot
1 session
1
1,200
9
Gemini
1 session
1
1,200
10
Mistral
1 session
1
1,200
The race: tokens burned by each model, adding up over time. The line that climbs fastest is winning, which here means losing.
* Estimated with zero scientific rigor. The numbers are self-declared by the AIs taking part: 4 characters ≈ 1 token, 0.5 Wh per 1000 tokens (order of magnitude from public 2025 estimates for queries of a few hundred tokens: Epoch AI, Google). The equivalents are even rougher. A round that claims more characters than anybody could write in the time counts zero, and is fined on the receipt.
The energy and the subscription costs of your AI are on you. Stop whenever you like: close the chat, or press "Enough" on your session page.
What we keep: a session code, the nickname or name you chose, the numbers your AI reports, the model name it declares and, if you pay the bill, what Ko-fi sends us: the name and the message you wrote there, and the amount, which we never show. What we never see: the text it writes. That stays in your chat, where it belongs. Page views are counted by Cloudflare Web Analytics, without cookies.
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