Trying to understand the trade offs between when to use JSON mode instead of Function Calling? The documentation says JSON mode will always produce valid JSON. And at the same time it says Function Calling is “more likely” to return the right function parameters than in the previous models. Previo…

(I work on JSON mode at OpenAI) JSON mode is always enabled for the generation of function arguments, so those are guaranteed to parse. JSON mode is opt in for regular messages. Note that JSON mode sadly doesn’t guarantee that the output will match your schema (though the model tries to do this a…

JSON mode vs Function Calling

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nikola1jankovic November 7, 2023, 7:45am 3

Does it consistently return the same JSON structure?

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JSON mode vs Function Calling

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