I guess you found a way to disable an excessive token using slowdown.
It makes sense that they might want to artificially increase the token usage of users who probably have institutional token budgets to burn.
It's even funnier that it excused itself for burning your tokens.
The other day when I gave it a rather complex task and it generated absolutely unusable pile of crap in response, after I roasted it, it just shut up, went sulking in a corner and didn't reply any more in that conversation.