The title of this piece differs from the HN title, but the HN title is a lot better. The original title is "The Biggest Con of the 21st Century: Tokens", subhead "How AI Companies Are Charging You More Without You Even Realizing It" - which is an absurd title because tokens are NOT the "biggest con" of anything, and AI companies make it very clear exactly how their pricing works.
I also don't like how this article presents numbers for language differences - in the "The Language Tax" section - but fails to clarify which tokenizer and where those numbers came from.
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The title of this piece differs from the HN title, but the HN title is a lot better. The original title is "The Biggest Con of the 21st Century: Tokens", subhead "How AI Companies Are Charging You More Without You Even Realizing It" - which is an absurd title because tokens are NOT the "biggest con" of anything, and AI companies make it very clear exactly how their pricing works.
I also don't like how this article presents numbers for language differences - in the "The Language Tax" section - but fails to clarify which tokenizer and where those numbers came from.