Comment by enjoylife
9 months ago
> Interestingly enough, it’s actually more efficient to send text as images: A 512x512 image with a small but readable font can easily fit 400-500 tokens worth of text, yet you’re only charged for 170 input tokens plus the 85 for the ‘master thumbnail’ for a grand total of 255 tokens—far less than the number of words on the image.
Sounds like an arbitrage opportunity for all those gpt wrappers. Price your cost per token the same, send over the prompt via image, pocket the difference?
Would it be worthwhile in terms of the added server costs of printing the text to images?