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Comment on ChatGPT: How many letters has the string “djsjcnnrjfkalcr”?

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Text is broken into something called "tokens" [0] for GPT. It doesn't work on individual characters. That explains why it always fails these character counting questions.

[0]: https://help.openai.com/en/articles/4936856-what-are-tokens-...

Interestingly both “halves” of the word as it split it have the same number of tokens

it always fails

It usually is able to get the answer within 1 character of the actual answer.

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