AI models cost more when you don’t use English

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• Marielza @marielza.bsky.social amplified

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  AI models can take up to 17 times more tokens to process non-Latin scripts than English, saddling users with a steep "tokenizer tax" https://restofworld.org/2026/ai-tokenizer-tax-non-english-languages-cost-inequity/?utm_…

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• Jeff (Gutenberg Parenthesis) Jarvis @jeffjarvis.bsky.social: This is the kind of reporting and needed perspective and context we will lose when/if @restofworld.org shuts down: AI models cost more when … →