Glide AI Generate text issue

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Hello everyone, I’m trying to have Glide AI generate a JSON string based on the reading of a transfer receipt.

The instruction I provide is this:

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The problem is that, with some receipts, it reads well, but with others, it forms a seemingly broken JSON string, and therefore, when I try to extract each piece of data through a JSON Query column, they stop working.

Malformed JSON generated by the AI.:
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Is there something wrong with the instructions I’m providing?

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Maybe tell it not to include back ticks or a code block???

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I have talked with Bob about this, since OpenAI does have an option to force returning JSON, if Glide can do it, give us a checkbox to force returning JSON or not.

https://platform.openai.com/docs/guides/text-generation/json-mode

cc @NoCodeAndy

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I had the same issue. I solved it by adding the following text to my prompt:

Provide the JSON object as a direct response without any additional comments or annotations - only output the JSON object and do not include ```json

example:

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@Simon_Hill - Thanks for sharing the workaround!

@ThinhDinh - Good suggestion. I’ve shared it with the dev team.

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Text to JSON does exactly this. Why not use it?

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I found the chat to text integration in which you pass an image along with the prompt tended to generate the issue above.

I tried a custom action involving a number of steps. In step 1 I ran the chat to text and returned some text, then in step 2 I ran the text to JSON. This led to issues with blank results.

The significant delays in running step 1 seemed difficult to manage even after inserting a ‘wait with condition’ action in-between.

In the end the solution I tested above uses 1 step, avoids the delay shenanigans and works ok.

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@david because Each run uses 1 update and JSON Query doesn’t
@Simon_Hill Thanks, I’m going to try this recommendation along with another one that was sent to me by private message

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Text to JSON is Generate Text in JSON output mode.

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Say for Simon’s use case above, would you consider supporting image as an input for the Text to JSON action/column? I think the only action/column where image is supported is “Complete chat” in OpenAI.

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Generate Text and Text to JSON both use 1 update.

This is what I use for my receipts.

Upload Image
Document to Text pointed to Upload Image (5 Updates)
Text to JSON pointed to Document to Text with all defined objects (1 Update)
1 Query JSON per object pointed to Document to Text to extract the specific information (No Updates)

I tried Image to Text which is only 1 update, but found it less consistent.

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