Why are two identical files sent in the assistant's response?

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Hi!

Assistant - gpt-4-turbo

I asked the same question ten times, but nine times I got an answer like:

{
  ...
  "role": "assistant",
  "content": [
    {
      "type": "image_file",
      "imageFile": {
        "fileId": "file-fileId1",
        "detail": null
      }
    },
    {
      "type": "text",
      "text": {
        "value": "Here is the bar chart showing the total order amounts by date...",
        "annotations": []
      }
    }
  ],
  ...
}

and once received a reply like:

{
  ...
  "role": "assistant",
  "content": [
    {
      "type": "image_file",
      "imageFile": {
        "fileId": "file-fileId1",
        "detail": null
      }
    },
    {
      "type": "text",
      "text": {
        "value": "Here is the bar chart showing the total order amounts by date...",
        "annotations": [
       {
           "type": "file_path",            
           "text": "sandbox:/mnt/data/sales_by_date_bar_chart.png", 
           "filePath": {fileId=file-fileId2}
       }
       ]
      }
    }
  ],
  ...
}

In addition, although file-fileId1 and file-fileId2 are different, the files are almost identical.

Why is only one file sent in 9 cases, and two in the tenth time?
What is the difference between message.content.image_file and message.content.annotations.file_path (Messages)?
Why send two identical files in the reply?

2

You can have a growing context that confuses the issue for the AI, and results in undesired output. You can reduce top_p value in the assistant to get a better result when you see occasional bad outputs from the same input.

Then, because OpenAI hasn’t published the method used for code interpreter when the AI responds, so you can’t improve the quality, and the AI is confused about how to write output.

Here’s the two types “file_path” and “image_file” documented a year ago. Then it is up to you to experiment with what object is actually being returned.

https://platform.openai.com/docs/assistants/tools/code-interpreter#reading-images-and-files-generated-by-code-interpreter