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4 curated public examples in Writing & design

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Writing & design

Ground a short caption in the pictured product

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.

Published byOpenAI Cookbook

Curated public exampleDesign

Writing & design

Judge whether visual iteration actually helped

Glaser published an experiment in which models generated an SVG, inspected a rasterized rendering, and iterated. His before-and-after results were mixed: several models added detail without fixing the underlying composition.

Published byRobert Glaser

Curated public exampleWorkflow

Writing & design

Treat generated continuations as creative options

Sloan built an Atom editor plugin offering inline completions from a recurrent neural network trained on old magazine text. His public account describes the working interaction and concludes that its creative effects did not yet justify the effort.

Published byRobin Sloan

Curated public exampleNotebook

Writing & design

Translate prose while checking document structure

With the author’s permission, OpenAI demonstrates translating Milan Mitrović’s Euclidean Plane Geometry from Slovenian into English. The notebook provides chunking code and a printed translation while attempting to retain the manuscript’s LaTeX structure.

Published byOpenAI Cookbook

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