Excellent question. I have absolutely NO idea. Friend helped me set one up on my PC and it even churns through "tokens" on my GPU. So I have zero clue. :D I guess I could ask "AI". lol

[–] Jiral@lemmy.org 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Tokens are what an LLM actually predicts, one after another. If you have very slow models that produce less than 5 tokens/s or so, you can easily follow it with your own eyes. A token is what appears at once. Often it is an entire word but it can also be parts of a word or individual letters, digits, special signs for uncommone words or special formatting, number stuff.

[–] tutter@lemmy.blahaj.zone -1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

It's the ai industry's made up In game currency. That flat monthly fee they're trying to get rid of was basically the season pass

It's all fraud and gambling! :D

[–] ozoned@piefed.social 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

lol this is how I explained it to my wife. Like how arcades all have these money cards now.

[–] tutter@lemmy.blahaj.zone 0 points 2 days ago (1 children)

basically the same mechanism. I'm heavily assuming they actually took inspo from the game industry

[–] ozoned@piefed.social 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

So gross. Obfuscation of currency so you have no clue how much you're actually spending. aka gambling imo.

[–] tutter@lemmy.blahaj.zone 0 points 2 days ago

Agree 100%

[–] Trainguyrom@reddthat.com 0 points 2 days ago

Short answer is that a token equates to a unit of work. I strongly suspect that the definition has been becoming less and less tangible as the bubble has inflated though