Why do some prompts give me the opportunity to switch between text and JSON outp...

My bad, I am still learning.

That is not helpful.

Haha yeah. Let me remove it. Sorry about that!

@ekevu., Are you referring to the “raw prompt” feature or the “response type” model parameter?

The response type

This is a new feature by OpenAI that helps you enforce outputs in JSON format - it's only available for 1106 models which is why you're only seeing that option in some prompts maybe. Here's more on that: https://platform.openai.com/docs/guides/text-generation/json-mode

Ah, makes sense! I wasn't aware that this was only for GPT-4-Turbo.