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Huge benefit that you can lock down model performance with as you fine-tune your prompt or extend out use cases.
I wrote about it here on my blog where i replaced a project’s prompt with Structured Output using Pydantic models https://amberwilliams.io/blogs/474b0361-cbc1-4fa5-b047-c042f...
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Indeed. I anticipate the next Post Office Scandal(1,2) attributed to LLMs. 1 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Post_Office_scandal 2 https://www.postofficescandal.uk/
That's awful. Reminds me of the Dutch childcare benefits scandal [0], where 26,000 families were unfairly labeled as having committed tax fraud (11,000 of which had been targeted via "risk profiling", as they had dual nationalities [1]). Bad policy + automation = disaster. The wikipedia article doesn't fully explain how some automated decisions were made (e.g. You had a typo in a form, therefore all previous benefits…
> What personally hurt you the most about how you were treated? > Derya: 'The worst thing about all of this, I think, was that I was registered as a fraudster. But I didn't know anything about that. There was a legal process for it, but they blocked it by not telling me what OGS (intent gross negligence) entailed. They had given me the qualification OGS and that was reason for judges to send me home with rejections. I didn't get any help anywhere and only now do I realize that I didn't stand a chance. All those years I fought against the heaviest sanction they could impose on me and I didn't know anything. I worked for the government. I worked very hard. And yet I was faced with wage garnishment and had to use the food bank. If I had known that I was just a fraudster and that was why I was being treated like that, I wouldn't have exhausted myself to prove that I did work hard and could pay off my debts myself. I literally and figuratively worked myself to death. And the consequences are now huge. Unfortunately.'
[0]: https://www.bnnvara.nl/artikelen/hoe-gaat-het-nu-met-de-slac...