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A model doesn't read text: what a tokenizer decides for you
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Dev.to | Sep 20, 2026 | Carlos Chinchilla Corbacho
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A language model has never seen a letter. GPT-2 was trained mostly on English web text, so English words are cheap: " tokenizer" is two tokens. The same concept in Spanish, " tokenizador", is three.
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