How to increase OpenAI token limit - Error 400
In this Bubble tutorial video we demonstrate how you can increase the message length for OpenAI's gpt-3.5-turbo model allowing you to have large conversations in your Bubble ChatGPT clone. Fix for OpenAI error "content_length_exceeded".
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Understanding the OpenAI Token Limit Error
So you've added the OpenAI API to your Bubble app and now you're getting a message like this: "This model's maximum context length is 497 tokens." This can be a limit that's really easy to hit, especially if you're building a chat app where you're having to send all of the previous messages in that conversation along each time. It can grow very easily or you're building an app where you're writing or reanalyzing, rewriting huge blog posts.
The Easy Fix for Token Limit
You're going to hit the limit of how many tokens you can send and there's a very easy fix for it. GPT 3.5 Turbo is available as GPT 3.5 Turbo 16k. So that is four times the amount of content that you can send in your whole API call and it's really quick to add this in.
Implementing the Solution
You just copy and paste the model name and where you've got model here GPT 3.5 Turbo, you would paste in GPT 3.5 Turbo 16k and there you have it. You've expanded the number of tokens that you can send with your API call.
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