Palantir CEO Alex Karp has a blunt take on the AI industry's hottest buzzword. Speaking on the TBPN podcast on the sidelines of Palantir's AIPCon 10 conference, Karp compared "tokenmaxxing"—the compulsive overuse of AI tokens—to a porn addiction.

"We try to make sure that what we track is an outcome, not a vanity metric," he added, BNP Paribas CIB's AI chief Charles Holive said.

Palantir CEO Alex Karp has a colorful diagnosis for corporate AI waste: pornography.