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kristofferR on May 13, 2024 | parent | context | favorite | on: GPT-4o

How are they able to use such a brand name, Tiktoken? Is it because TikTok is Chinese? Tiktoken, it's almost like if Apple released the Facebooken library for something entirely unrelated to Facebook.

gemeral on May 14, 2024 [–]

That's not the right analogy. The "tok" in "Tiktoken" comes from "token", not "TikTok".

meiraleal on May 18, 2024 | [–]

And the "tik" comes from TikTok.

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