When using the API answers show citations - How do I remove them?

[jan16]

I am using an Assistant and calling it via Zapier.
It uses Gpt4-o, and also testing GPT4-mini.
The problem is that the answers show citation sources. How do I switch that off?

[elmstedt]

You cannot turn that off, it’s baked into the model.

You can, however, always strip the information out of the response.

[jan16]

Thanks for the quick response. When I asked OpenAI support they said it wasn’t and that it had to be toggled off & on somewhere but when I asked where they said to ask the community here

[vb]

There is no toggle switch that I am aware of but this is a recurring question here in the community.

Please make sure to use the forum search when looking for answers.

Here is a link to the documentation:
https://platform.openai.com/docs/assistants/deep-dive/message-annotations

And here is a link to a previous solution but there are more topics with different approaches to the same issue:

Disable references in the Assistant API response

Hi and welcome to the Developer Forum! I do not know of a parameter to do that, the only way I know of so far is to use code after the event: import re message_text = ("This is a sample text【9†source】 with source " "tags using annotations【10†source】and some other content.") # Use regex to remove source citations cleaned_text = re.sub('【.*?†source】', '', message_text)

Hope this helps.