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How OpenElections uses LLMs
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In the past we did pay for data entry services, and while we developed working relationships with two individuals in particular, the results almost always contained some mistakes and the cost could run into the hundreds of dollars pretty quickly. But two big issues make it hard for most OCR software to deal with: the two-column layout, with results from races on the left and the right; and those annoying dots between the end of candidate values and the vote totals. But there are couple of other things that make Gemini the first choice for this: its AI Studio UI allows me to turn the temperature down to 0 (less creativity) and, for models where the “thinking mode” is optional, the ability to disable it if the task at hand is pretty straight-forward.
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