Hello OpenAI community members!
It is said that “one token is roughly 4 characters for normal English text,” [Source - Docs] I still find it hard to actually visualize the amount of text in a completion. I’d like to provide feedback that could help make it easier for users to better understand how much text could be returned in a completion when adjusting the Maximum Length variable.
I could multiply 40 tokens by 4 to estimate that the completion will be 160 characters or less, but I also find that hard to visualize, since I’m used to seeing how much space a block of text takes up on a page rather than trying to visualize how much space is used up by a block of characters.
To help users who also see that as a struggle, I think we can more accurately represent how much text could be returned by having skeleton placeholder text that represents the number of tokens a user has selected.
This should help users better visualize the amount of text they might see in a completion. Here’s an example below to understand what I mean:
Let me know if you all would find this useful, or if you have any concerns regarding this potential feature.