diff --git a/application/utils.py b/application/utils.py
index ac98efc..f050201 100644
--- a/application/utils.py
+++ b/application/utils.py
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 from transformers import GPT2TokenizerFast
 
-
+tokenizer = GPT2TokenizerFast.from_pretrained('gpt2')
 def count_tokens(string):
-    tokenizer = GPT2TokenizerFast.from_pretrained('gpt2')
+    
     return len(tokenizer(string)['input_ids'])
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