Read this first: You don't need a frontier model to redact PII Asked to redact a PII-dense document, llama3.1:8b sometimes answers: "I cannot provide information that could be used to identify an individual." That is a 200 response containing a well-formed English sentence. Write it into your destination field and the original document, every name intact, carries on downstream. The record looks processed. That was the pattern behind most of the problems we hit while benchmarking six r...