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# What are Sticky Prompts?

A prompt is one message that you send to an AI, whether it is an initial message or a follow-up message. To keep things simple and for creators, we control AI Game Maker usage by number of prompts sent by you to the AI. The alternative would be to use tokens (parts of words of varying length) which is how big AI labs charge customers like us, but which is even less predictable.