# Captioning goes nuts

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/captioning-goes-nuts/323079
**Category:** Bug
**Tags:** ai, fixed, ai-captions
**Created:** [August 23, 2024, 2:33pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/captioning-goes-nuts/323079 "2024-08-23T14:33:35Z")
**Posts on this page:** 7
**Page:** 1

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### Author: ![RGJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/rgj/32/523185_2.png) [@RGJ](https://meta.discourse.org/u/RGJ)
#### Post date: [August 23, 2024, 2:33pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/captioning-goes-nuts/323079/1 "2024-08-23T14:33:35Z")

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I was happily replying to a post and when I inserted an image, it hung for a long time and then it had tens of odd captions.

 ![Screenshot 2024-08-23 163100](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/4X/2/b/0/2b0022e4fb35d7beb7a1ba3f69fde40f3dd237ec.png)

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### Author: ![RGJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/rgj/32/523185_2.png) [@RGJ](https://meta.discourse.org/u/RGJ)
#### Post date: [August 23, 2024, 2:34pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/captioning-goes-nuts/323079/2 "2024-08-23T14:34:28Z")

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![{:type=>"text", :text=>"The image shows a person sitting in a chair with their feet propped up on a table."} {:type=>"text", :text=>"The image shows a person sitting in a chair with their feet propped up on a table."} {:type=>"text", :text=>"The image shows a person sitting in a chair with their feet propped up on a table."} {:type=>"text", :text=>"The image shows a person sitting in a chair with their feet propped up on a table."} {:type=>"text", :text=>"The image shows a person sitting in a chair with their feet propped up on a table."} {:type=>"text", :text=>"The image shows a person sitting in a chair with their feet propped up on a table."} {:type=>"text", :text=>"The image shows a person sitting in a chair with their feet propped up on a table."} {:type=>"text", :text=>"The image shows a person sitting in a chair with their feet propped up on a table."} {:type=>"text", :text=>"The image shows a person sitting in a chair with their feet propped up on a table."} {:type=>"text", :text=>"The image shows a person sitting in a chair with their feet propped up on a table."} {:type=>"text", :text=>"The image shows a person sitting in a chair with their feet propped up on a table."} {:type=>"text", :text=>"The image shows a person sitting in a chair with their feet propped up on a table."} {:type=>"text", :text=>"The image shows a person sitting in a chair with their feet propped up on a table."} {:type=>"text", :text=>"The image shows a person sitting in a chair with their feet propped up on a table."} {:type=>"text", :text=>"The image shows a person sitting in a chair with their feet propped up on a table."} {:type=>"text", :text=>"The image shows a person sitting in a chair with their feet propped up on a table."} {:type=>"text", :text=>"The image shows a person sitting in a chair with their feet propped up on a table."} {:type=>"text", :text=>"The image shows a person sitting in a chair with their feet propped up on a table."} {:type=>"text", :text=>"The image shows a person sitting in a chair with their feet propped up on a table."} {:type=>"text", :text=>"The image shows a person sitting in a chair with their feet propped up on a table."} {:type=>"text", :text=>"The image shows a person sitting in a chair with their feet propped up on a table."} {:type=>"text", :text=>"The image shows a person sitting in a chair with their feet propped up on a table."} {:type=>"text", :text=>"The image shows a person sitting in a chair with their feet propped up on a table."} {:type=>"text", :text=>"The image shows a person sitting in a chair with their feet propped up on a table."} {:type=>"text", :text=>"The image shows a person sitting in a chair with their feet propped up on a table."} {:type=>"text", :text=>"The image shows a person sitting in a chair with their feet propped up on a table."} {:type=>"text", :text=>"The image shows a person sitting in a chair with their feet propped up on a table."} {:type=>"text", :text=>"The image shows a person sitting in a chair with their feet propped up on a table."} {:type=>"text", :text=>"The image shows a person sitting in a chair with their feet propped up on a table."} {:type=>"text", :text=>"The image shows a person sitting in a chair with their feet propped up on a table."} {:type=>"text", :text=>"The image shows a person sitting in a chair with their feet propped up on a table."} {:type=>"text", :text=>"The image shows a person sitting in a chair with their feet propped up on a table."} (Captioned by AI)](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/4X/3/a/d/3ad67895c9537684244b929b9af1aaf0f886c8e7.png)

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### Author: ![RGJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/rgj/32/523185_2.png) [@RGJ](https://meta.discourse.org/u/RGJ)
#### Post date: [August 23, 2024, 2:36pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/captioning-goes-nuts/323079/4 "2024-08-23T14:36:18Z")

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Look at the raw for the above post [https://meta.discourse.org/raw/323079/2](https://meta.discourse.org/raw/323079/2)

```plaintext
![{:type=>"text", :text=>"The image shows a person sitting in a chair with their feet propped up on a table."}
{:type=>"text", :text=>"The image shows a person sitting in a chair with their feet propped up on a table."}
{:type=>"text", :text=>"The image shows a person sitting in a chair with their feet propped up on a table."}
{:type=>"text", :text=>"The image shows a person sitting in a chair with their feet propped up on a table."}
{:type=>"text", :text=>"The image shows a person sitting in a chair with their feet propped up on a table."}
{:type=>"text", :text=>"The image shows a person sitting in a chair with their feet propped up on a table."}
{:type=>"text", :text=>"The image shows a person sitting in a chair with their feet propped up on a table."}
{:type=>"text", :text=>"The image shows a person sitting in a chair with their feet propped up on a table."}
{:type=>"text", :text=>"The image shows a person sitting in a chair with their feet propped up on a table."}
{:type=>"text", :text=>"The image shows a person sitting in a chair with their feet propped up on a table."}
{:type=>"text", :text=>"The image shows a person sitting in a chair with their feet propped up on a table."}
{:type=>"text", :text=>"The image shows a person sitting in a chair with their feet propped up on a table."}
{:type=>"text", :text=>"The image shows a person sitting in a chair with their feet propped up on a table."}
{:type=>"text", :text=>"The image shows a person sitting in a chair with their feet propped up on a table."}
{:type=>"text", :text=>"The image shows a person sitting in a chair with their feet propped up on a table."}
{:type=>"text", :text=>"The image shows a person sitting in a chair with their feet propped up on a table."}
{:type=>"text", :text=>"The image shows a person sitting in a chair with their feet propped up on a table."}
{:type=>"text", :text=>"The image shows a person sitting in a chair with their feet propped up on a table."}
{:type=>"text", :text=>"The image shows a person sitting in a chair with their feet propped up on a table."}
{:type=>"text", :text=>"The image shows a person sitting in a chair with their feet propped up on a table."}
{:type=>"text", :text=>"The image shows a person sitting in a chair with their feet propped up on a table."}
{:type=>"text", :text=>"The image shows a person sitting in a chair with their feet propped up on a table."}
{:type=>"text", :text=>"The image shows a person sitting in a chair with their feet propped up on a table."}
{:type=>"text", :text=>"The image shows a person sitting in a chair with their feet propped up on a table."}
{:type=>"text", :text=>"The image shows a person sitting in a chair with their feet propped up on a table."}
{:type=>"text", :text=>"The image shows a person sitting in a chair with their feet propped up on a table."}
{:type=>"text", :text=>"The image shows a person sitting in a chair with their feet propped up on a table."}
{:type=>"text", :text=>"The image shows a person sitting in a chair with their feet propped up on a table."}
{:type=>"text", :text=>"The image shows a person sitting in a chair with their feet propped up on a table."}
{:type=>"text", :text=>"The image shows a person sitting in a chair with their feet propped up on a table."}
{:type=>"text", :text=>"The image shows a person sitting in a chair with their feet propped up on a table."}
{:type=>"text", :text=>"The image shows a person sitting in a chair with their feet propped up on a table."}
 (Captioned by AI)|422x390](upload://8ovc6XSQ6XOkGVN48gqpFxqoiFN.png)

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### Author: ![RGJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/rgj/32/523185_2.png) [@RGJ](https://meta.discourse.org/u/RGJ)
#### Post date: [August 23, 2024, 2:58pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/captioning-goes-nuts/323079/5 "2024-08-23T14:58:01Z")

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![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/4X/a/e/1/ae1863c7201bbe4bcc01ba8e4c92bb7e09141c49.jpeg)

I decided to upload an _actual_ image of a man with his feet on a table (creative commons) and that crashes the captioning engine.

 ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/4X/7/5/7/757c1346bf93fa36381ec4df2fa4d069a244473e.png)

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### Author: ![Lilly](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/lilly/32/575047_2.png) [@Lilly](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Lilly)
#### Post date: [August 23, 2024, 4:35pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/captioning-goes-nuts/323079/8 "2024-08-23T16:35:54Z")

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Thanks @RGJ, yea I noticed this one happen to me too - the AI team is working on it. 🙂

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### Author: ![Roman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/roman/32/157504_2.png) [@Roman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Roman)
#### Post date: [August 23, 2024, 8:09pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/captioning-goes-nuts/323079/9 "2024-08-23T20:09:18Z")

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This regressed due to a change to better support OSS models without system prompts. Fixed by:

[https://github.com/discourse/discourse-ai/pull/771](https://github.com/discourse/discourse-ai/pull/771)

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### Author: ![Roman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/roman/32/157504_2.png) [@Roman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Roman)
#### Post date: [August 26, 2024, 11:00am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/captioning-goes-nuts/323079/11 "2024-08-26T11:00:14Z")

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