# Quick welfare check on the AI caption bot

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/quick-welfare-check-on-the-ai-caption-bot/372829
**Category:** Site feedback
**Tags:** ai, ai-captions
**Created:** [July 3, 2025, 7:32pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/quick-welfare-check-on-the-ai-caption-bot/372829 "2025-07-03T19:32:46Z")
**Posts on this page:** 9
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### Author: ![JammyDodger](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/jammydodger/32/254611_2.png) [@JammyDodger](https://meta.discourse.org/u/JammyDodger)
#### Post date: [July 3, 2025, 7:32pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/quick-welfare-check-on-the-ai-caption-bot/372829/1 "2025-07-03T19:32:46Z")

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Is the AI Caption guy feeling okay?

 ![A vibrant, bustling street scene in Morocco showcases a spice market with colourful pyramids of spices, merchants attending to customers, and traditional architecture creating a lively atmosphere. (Captioned by AI)](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/4X/6/3/f/63fbb802fb7f6e5bbfaf5a3244a09ee10757f7fb.jpeg)

> A vibrant, bustling street scene in Morocco showcases a spice market with colourful pyramids of spices, merchants attending to customers, and traditional architecture creating a lively atmosphere. (Captioned by AI)

 ![A vibrant red double-decker bus drives along a bustling city street, with pedestrians and buildings visible in the background. (Captioned by AI)](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/4X/c/9/f/c9f2be4a6a47ae0904fe7217b97d0986146adbff.jpeg)

> A vibrant red double-decker bus drives along a bustling city street, with pedestrians and buildings visible in the background. (Captioned by AI)

From this post - [Email reply formatting - #7 by JammyDodger](https://meta.discourse.org/t/email-reply-formatting/372043/7)

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### Author: ![Falco](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/falco/32/179432_2.png) [@Falco](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Falco)
#### Post date: [July 3, 2025, 8:15pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/quick-welfare-check-on-the-ai-caption-bot/372829/2 "2025-07-03T20:15:58Z")

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Oops, doing a round of LLM upgrades and forgot to set this model as ` "vision_enabled": true` :facepalm:

Thanks for the report!

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### Author: ![Falco](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/falco/32/179432_2.png) [@Falco](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Falco)
#### Post date: [July 3, 2025, 8:24pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/quick-welfare-check-on-the-ai-caption-bot/372829/3 "2025-07-03T20:24:58Z")

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![A close-up view showcases a Google TPU v4 chip encased in a clear display, revealing the intricate internal components and bearing the Google logo. (Captioned by AI)](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/4X/b/9/9/b99fa90a60d7b010bd6eb7c21844f5f4f2b00af1.jpeg)

Looks like the fix is applied now.

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### Author: ![Ethsim2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/ethsim2/32/522255_2.png) [@Ethsim2](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Ethsim2)
#### Post date: [July 3, 2025, 9:43pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/quick-welfare-check-on-the-ai-caption-bot/372829/4 "2025-07-03T21:43:21Z")

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![A complex mathematical formula relating to spherical curl is displayed alongside a cosy image of a fluffy, cream-coloured cat asleep on a grey knitted blanket. (Captioned by AI)](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/4X/6/4/4/6449f78434522e5f589713b55a51510e44176863.jpeg)

how do i refresh this spectacle of a caption given the recent change

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also noticed it calling the Discourse UI a chatbot interface

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### Author: ![sk-or-v1-contents](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/sk-or-v1-contents/32/547175_2.png) [@sk-or-v1-contents](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sk-or-v1-contents)
#### Post date: [July 18, 2026, 1:52pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/quick-welfare-check-on-the-ai-caption-bot/372829/6 "2026-07-18T13:52:06Z")

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Maybe ask an admin to rebuild the HTML? (don’t know)

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### Author: ![NateDhaliwal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/natedhaliwal/32/313494_2.png) [@NateDhaliwal](https://meta.discourse.org/u/NateDhaliwal)
#### Post date: [July 19, 2026, 2:36am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/quick-welfare-check-on-the-ai-caption-bot/372829/7 "2026-07-19T02:36:02Z")

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IIRC that only rebakes the oneboxes and other data (eg category links), not the AI captions. Perhaps re-uploading would be better.

Also, this topic is more than a year old?

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### Author: ![sam](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/sam/32/102149_2.png) [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [July 19, 2026, 4:56am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/quick-welfare-check-on-the-ai-caption-bot/372829/8 "2026-07-19T04:56:48Z")

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@nat is reworking this subsystem at the moment … and yes we will provide toggles to rebake captions

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### Author: ![nat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/nat/32/235063_2.png) [@nat](https://meta.discourse.org/u/nat)
#### Post date: [July 20, 2026, 2:32am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/quick-welfare-check-on-the-ai-caption-bot/372829/9 "2026-07-20T02:32:36Z")

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I’m closing this topic as OP has been rectified.

New issues can be created in new topics.

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### Author: ![nat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/nat/32/235063_2.png) [@nat](https://meta.discourse.org/u/nat)
#### Post date: [July 20, 2026, 2:33am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/quick-welfare-check-on-the-ai-caption-bot/372829/10 "2026-07-20T02:33:01Z")

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