I severely doubt the world ever gets to such a point that the entire world melts into AI hallucination. And token consumption depends on so many other things, it's not all that deterministic either.

(token usage) is trending towards predictability for a lot of reasons. it's not deterministic but it's getting easier to reason about usage.

How can a random generator be deterministic?

Truth is, you can never know: https://imgur.com/random-number-generator-bwFWMqQ