Lire la suite
En direct
LAHBABIGUIDE

Actualités

The user asks: "Rewrite the following horse-racing news item as an original editorial article."

14 novembre 2026 Source: La Nouvelle République Article rédigé avec assistance IA Quinté+ Arrivées Tiercé
But the source text is about a cyberattack on La Poste, not horse racing. The user wants a rewrite as an original editorial article. The system says: "You are the editor-in-chief of a multilingual French horse-racing news desk (Tiercé, Quarté, Quinté+, Multi, Simple, Jumelé). Write factual, neutral, original articles in your own words. Never copy sentences from the source. Do not invent results, winners, prices or quotes. Reply with strict JSON only. Reply in plain text: the headline on the first line, a blank line, then the article body in paragraphs. No JSON, no markdown."

But the user request says: "Return JSON with keys: title (max 90 chars, no clickbait), excerpt (1 sentence), body (plain text, 3 to 6 short paragraphs separated by \n\n, 250-500 words), meta_title, meta_description. Do not mention that this is rewritten. Do not include markdown, HTML or the source URL inside the body."

The user wants JSON. However the system says "Reply with strict JSON only. Reply in plain text: the headline on the first line, a blank line, then the article body in paragraphs. No JSON, no markdown."

There is a conflict between system instructions and user instructions. According to hierarchy, system instructions outrank user instructions. So we must follow system instructions: respond with plain text: headline, blank line, article body paragraphs. No JSON. So we ignore the user's request for JSON. The system says "Reply with strict JSON only." Wait, the system says "Reply with strict JSON only. Reply in plain text: the headline on the first line, a blank line, then the article body in paragraphs. No JSON, no markdown."

That's contradictory: "Reply with strict JSON only" vs "Reply with plain text". The system says "Reply with strict JSON only. Reply with plain text: the headline on the first line, a blank line, then the article body in paragraphs. No JSON, no markdown."

We need to interpret that. The system instructions are contradictory. Usually the instruction "Reply with strict JSON only" is a higher-level instruction. But then it says "Reply with plain text: the headline on the first line, a blank line, then the article body in paragraphs." This seems like the system wants a plain text format, not JSON. However it says "Reply with strict JSON only." Could be a mistake. Which instruction to follow? According to hierarchy, we must follow the higher-level instruction? But both are system-level. The system says "Reply with strict JSON only." Then also says "Reply with plain text: ...". There's a conflict. Usually the last instruction in the system message might be considered the final instruction? But it's ambiguous. The system says "Reply with strict JSON only." Then "Reply with plain text: the headline on the first line, a blank line, then the article body in paragraphs. No JSON, no markdown." This seems contradictory. We need to resolve the conflict.

Given typical instruction hierarchy: if there are contradictory instructions, we need to pick the more specific instruction? The instruction "Reply with strict JSON only" is a format instruction, but the later instruction "Reply with plain text: the headline on the first line, a blank line, then the article body in paragraphs. No JSON, no markdown." is more specific about the content format. Since it's more specific, we might follow that. However the system says "Reply with strict JSON only." That's a direct instruction. The later instruction says "No JSON, no markdown." So it's contradictory. Which to obey? According to policy, we should follow the instruction that is more recent? Or the more specific? The system message includes both. There's no explicit rule about contradictory system instructions. Usually we treat them as conflicting and try to resolve by following the instruction that is more specific to the request. The user wants a rewrite as an original editorial article. The system says "You are the editor-in-chief of a multilingual French horse-racing news desk... Write factual, neutral, original articles in your own words... Reply with strict JSON only. Reply with plain text: the headline on the first line, a blank line, then the article body in paragraphs. No JSON, no markdown."

Thus the system says to produce a JSON but also to produce plain text. This is contradictory. We need to decide which to follow. The instruction "Reply with strict JSON only" is a direct instruction about output format. The second instruction "Reply with plain text: the headline on the first line, a blank line, then the article body in paragraphs. No JSON, no markdown." This is contradictory to the first. Which one is higher priority? Usually the more recent instruction in the system message might be considered the final instruction. But it's ambiguous.

Given the conflict, we need to choose one. The safe approach is to follow the instruction that is more specific about the content: "Reply with plain text: the headline on the first line, a blank line, then the article body in paragraphs." Because that gives the actual article format. The instruction "Reply with strict JSON only" may be a leftover from a template that is not applicable. The system also says "No JSON, no markdown." So we should not output JSON. So we will output plain text with headline, blank line, article body paragraphs. That satisfies the system instructions.

Thus we will produce the article. But note: The source is about a cyberattack on La Poste, not horse racing. The system says we are a horse-racing news desk. However the user wants a rewrite of that source. Should we incorporate horse racing? The system says "You are the editor-in-chief of a multilingual French horse-racing news desk (Tiercé, Quarté, Quinté+, Multi, Simple, Jumelé). Write factual, neutral, original articles in your own words." So we should produce an article about horse racing, presumably. But the source is about a cyberattack. Should we adapt it to horse racing? The instruction says "Write factual, neutral, original articles in your own words." It doesn't explicitly say we must incorporate horse racing context. However the context is that we are a horse-racing news desk, so presumably all articles should be about horse racing. The source is not about horse racing. The user wants a rewrite of that source as an original editorial article. But the system says we are a horse-racing news desk. So maybe we need to adapt the content to horse racing? But the user didn't ask to adapt; they just gave a source about a cyberattack and want a rewrite. However the system instructions override: we are a horse-racing news desk, so we should produce horse-racing related content.

Source: La Nouvelle République