Ground a short caption in the pictured product

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The public work

OpenAI works through furniture images from an Amazon product dataset, generating descriptions and then concise captions. Printed examples show how the product title identifies the intended item when an image contains several objects.

What to notice

Separate identifying the right subject from choosing concise wording; verify visual claims before compressing a description into a caption.

Keep the context

This is a notebook demonstration, not a measured marketing outcome. Generated descriptions can infer unsupported materials or features. Some prose names an older model, while the displayed caption functions use gpt-4o-mini.

AI use: Documented in the source.

The displayed image-description and caption functions call gpt-4o-mini through the OpenAI API.

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A prompt to adapt privately

Choose a public product image and its title. Identify which object the title refers to, list only visible or explicitly supplied attributes, and draft two one-sentence captions. Critique unsupported claims, remove them, and choose the clearer caption for a stated audience.

A check to adapt

The caption names the intended product, fits one sentence, and contains no unsupported attributes.

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