Tokens Explained: How AI Reads Your Text (and Why It Affects the Price)
1. What is a token, really? For language models like ChatGPT, text isn’t processed as whole words or sentences. Instead, it’s chopped into tokens: A token might be: a full short word: cat a piece of a longer word: inter, nation, al punctuation: ., ?, , spaces or symbols Rough rule of thumb (for English):…