@gfodor recently tweeted a series of prompts that, with some trial and error, you can use to prompt GPT to give you many more tokens than what’s included in the prompt. In other words, like a .zip file, a compression prompt is ‘unzipped’ by GPT.

gfodor’s prompts were inspired by @VictorTaelin, who seems to have first stumbled upon GPT’s ability to compress and decompress tokens (check out the GitHub here).

You can create compression prompts with the following text by pasting what you want to compress after the colon: