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Tokens: the pieces AI reads
Two words can be two tokens. One word can be six. See what changes.
Explain why counting words cannot tell you exactly how many tokens a text model will use.
A message you recognise
hello world
2 pieces. Each gets an ID.
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Learn the patterns behind AI hype, then try spotting them in our historical claim checks.
- Self-Markedgraded by the party that benefits from the grade · 24 archive cases
- Zero Underneaththe headline number has nothing behind it · 23 archive cases
- Moved Rulertwo methods, two answers, one of them quoted · 14 archive cases
- Cherry-Picked Slicethe flattering subset, presented as the whole · 11 archive cases
- Headline Over Filingthe document underneath says something else · 10 archive cases
- Rented Halothe achievement is real, the drama around it is borrowed · 10 archive cases
- Scope Swapapplies to far less than it sounds like · 9 archive cases
- The Annualiserone good period, multiplied out · 6 archive cases
- Lab Not Fieldit works in the test conditions, not the deployed ones · 5 archive cases
- Announced Not Shippedclaimed, never released · 5 archive cases
- Circular Moneythe customer is funded by the vendor · 5 archive cases
- Narrowed Superlativefirst or fastest, inside a quietly narrowed category · 4 archive cases
- Human In The Loopautonomy claimed, humans did the work · 4 archive cases
- Temporary As Permanenta moratorium or intro price reported as the settled state · 4 archive cases
- Moved Goalpostthe threshold itself was changed, quietly · 1 archive cases
- Borrowed Engineit beats the thing it is secretly calling · 1 archive cases
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