People are creating AI-powered bot accounts on Mastodon using paid token services, which increases server infrastructure costs for the instance. The broader claim is valid—AI token spending has become expensive for organizations (Sam Altman confirmed this is now a 'huge issue' for companies) and bot proliferation does burden servers. What's missing: specific documentation that Mastodon bot creators are primarily motivated by AI token spending rather than other automation uses, or quantified impact on mstdn.social's costs specifically. The post also conflates two separate problems (bot spam and AI cost inflation) without establishing they're causally linked on Mastodon.