Actually, it is not true. Hilarious Author compares different encoders: for Facebook's NLLB and GPT2. Where did title came from? Another point is that OpenAI

Actually, it is not true. Hilarious Author compares different encoders: for Facebook's NLLB and GPT2. Where did title came from? Another point is that OpenAI changed encoders for chat models. Link: https://github.com/openai/openai-cookbook/blob/main/examples/How_to_count_tokens_with_tiktoken.ipynb https://github.com/openai/openai-cookbook/blob/main/examples... Now English is less optimized for tokens usage and other languages are much more balanced. E.g. Ukrainian takes only twice as much tokens, before it had 6 times more tokens