Action needed:
- an alternate Playground renderer for reasoning model output
- verify actual AI output is being unaltered and available
- documentation so we also can avoid the playground’s fault.
“markdown is default off”
In the latest reasoning models, it is documented that you need to send a system message along the lines of “markdown is turned back on because it somehow got turned off in training” if you actually want to get markdown.
But just like the markdown and the latex written into it (and even latex into markdown code fence) being given no developer guidance before, this is another case where the production and the specification is undocumented but clearly adheres to something.
The Responses playground also doesn’t deal…
In the Playground, you try to copy that out, either selecting over the render, or selecting in the edit box, the indentation results for you are code-breaking:
But at least you got the AI talking about its output for reference.
Here is another example of the Playground again being non-useful, breaking the output mid-code in several ways (like someone posting without preformatted text fence to this forum)
So it seems that we need a switch that can turn off markdown interpretation, or turn on the alternative that is likely present in ChatGPT.
I can see that receiving the actual AI production as a clipboard copy is useful for developers that want to find solutions - such as converting two Unicode em-spaces to the intended code indentation.
How about a heads up documenting the “markdown alternative”, and translations one must do to get a useful product from the AI?