"Detected an error in the prompt."

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I am now getting the following error in the chatgpt 3.5 turbo API. I do not find any documentation about this specific error in the docs online and it is not very descriptive. Note that I have not changed my code and it has just started returning this about 2 hours ago, so it must be an issue with the OpenAI endpoint.

error_code=None error_message=“Detected an error in the prompt. Please try again with a different prompt.” error_param=prompt error_type=invalid_request_error message=“OpenAI API error received” stream_error=False

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Welcome to the forum.

What is the prompt? Can we reproduce the bug? Maybe it’s the content filter tripping? Have you checked the prompt with the moderation endpoint?

ETA:

https://platform.openai.com/docs/guides/error-codes/api-errors

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It is a basic summarization prompt that also passes in the context to summarize. And yes I do pass in the total prompt to the moderation endpoint and it passes there. I have been using the same pipeline flow for months, so no issues there. The error is only return sporadically.

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Did you ever find out anything about this? I see the error occasionally as well, but haven’t been able to figure out possible reasons.

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