What is the purpose of “id” in the response of a text_completion and what can it be used for?
Currently it cannot be used in the body of other calls, even though the chat itself when asked suggests a curl output which is not valid.
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Welcome to the community!
As far as I know, OpenAI recommends to use it to mark which user of your service sends a prompt in order to better track down malicious users.
Hope that helps!
Right now if I make 4 continuous calls, the id changes, hence I cannot track that as a ‘flow’. What options do I have?
Ah, you’re talking about the id you get back, not sending user id’s.
It’s a random key, so there’s no way to track flow via the API. You need to build around this to store prompts, stitch them together, etc.
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