PSA: "detail" parameter for gpt-4-vision API

[halcyon plinth]

In the API documentation it is not detailed exactly how to pass the "detail" parameter. You pass it as follows:

{
    "type": "image_url", 
    "image_url": {
        "url": "the image url",
        "detail": "high"
    }
}

[halcyon plinth]

bumping this

[weary path]

ty

[wheat solstice]

What's the default?

[trim sphinx]

auto

[eternal leaf]

i think its at high as default? I ran it with some HD images and i could tell it was set to high because of the token usage

[humble nest]

nice, these engineers and researchers at openai can create the most magical stuff but their documentation isn't that clear lol

was so confused on how to pass the detail parameter

[halcyon plinth]

Might just be forcing high for those image inputs

[halcyon plinth]

I'm sure it's a hectic time! They'll definitely polish the docs

[subtle bolt]

What exactly is the difference in functionality? In other words - which use-cases need 'high' resolution and which use-cases need 'low'?

[humble nest]

low resolution costs less

high resolution theoretically should always be better than low resolution since you're giving more data for gpt to work with

but low resolution costs like 1/4th high resolution depending on image size

[subtle bolt]

Need not be. Really depends on the distribution on which the model has been trained on

[humble nest]

i mean sure