AI Chatbots: Software with Settings

Although AI chatbots can sometimes feel like magic, they are not.

They are just powerful software programs. And like any other software program, they contain many "settings" you can tweak to achieve different outputs.

One setting is the maximum number of tokens that can be generated in a single response. For ChatGPT 5.2, that maximum is roughly 128 000 tokens, which is roughly the size of the first Harry Potter book.