# Discourse Chatbot 🤖

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**Tags:** ai\
**Created:** [March 1, 2023, 11:08am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-chatbot/256652 "2023-03-01T11:08:25Z")\
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Ah now I understand the confusion.

Yes there is an API _token_ (or key, which you need to get from OpenAI) and there are text _tokens_ that represent parts of words. The latter are processed by the LLM. The former is so you can be authenticated by the API.

Here’s quite a good guide to the terminology from The Verge:

> **[AI is confusing — here’s your cheat sheet](https://www.theverge.com/24201441/ai-terminology-explained-humans)**
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> What the words behind generative AI tools actually mean.

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