diff --git a/server/ai_http.go b/server/ai_http.go
index 3207378838..ac59de363d 100644
--- a/server/ai_http.go
+++ b/server/ai_http.go
@@ -9,7 +9,6 @@ import (
 	"strconv"
 	"time"
 
-	"github.com/daulet/tokenizers"
 	"github.com/getkin/kin-openapi/openapi3filter"
 	"github.com/livepeer/ai-worker/worker"
 	"github.com/livepeer/go-livepeer/clog"
@@ -298,49 +297,8 @@ func handleAIRequest(ctx context.Context, w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request
 			return orch.TextToSpeech(ctx, v)
 		}
 
-		tokenizerJSON := `{
-			"architectures": [
-			  "BertForMaskedLM"
-			],
-			"attention_probs_dropout_prob": 0.1,
-			"gradient_checkpointing": false,
-			"hidden_act": "gelu",
-			"hidden_dropout_prob": 0.1,
-			"hidden_size": 768,
-			"initializer_range": 0.02,
-			"intermediate_size": 3072,
-			"layer_norm_eps": 1e-12,
-			"max_position_embeddings": 512,
-			"model_type": "bert",
-			"num_attention_heads": 12,
-			"num_hidden_layers": 12,
-			"pad_token_id": 0,
-			"position_embedding_type": "absolute",
-			"transformers_version": "4.6.0.dev0",
-			"type_vocab_size": 2,
-			"use_cache": true,
-			"vocab_size": 30522
-		  }`
-
-		// Convert the JSON string to a byte slice
-		tokenizerBytes := []byte(tokenizerJSON)
-
-		// Config could also be loaded FromFile
-		tk, err := tokenizers.FromBytes(tokenizerBytes)
-		if err != nil {
-			respondWithError(w, "Bad tokenizer json", http.StatusBadRequest)
-			return
-		}
-		prompt := v.TextInput
-		e, enc := tk.Encode(*prompt, false)
-		if e != nil {
-			respondWithError(w, "Bad Tokenizing", http.StatusBadRequest)
-			return
-		}
-		tok := len(enc)
-		outPixels = int64(tok * 1000)
-		// release native resources
-		defer tk.Close()
+		outPixels *= 1000
+
 	default:
 		respondWithError(w, "Unknown request type", http.StatusBadRequest)
 		return