token — The chunk of text a model reads and writes in — roughly three-quarters of a word — and the unit AI usage is billed in.
Why it matters
Ordinary typos rotate a model's hidden-state readout enough to blind single-position prompt-injection probes, cutting detection by 12 points; a short fixed suffix that lets the probe read downstream tokenThe chunk of text a model reads and writes in — roughly three-quarters of a word — and the unit AI usage is billed in.Full definition → closes 95% of that gap.
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