CAPTION THIS: Why Multimodal RAG Is Finally Growing Up
Captioning looks easy until the caption has to be true. A consumer image captioning model can say, “a man standing at a podium,” and most people will nod. A newsroom cannot stop there. It needs to know whether the man is a senator, a witness, a CEO, a defendant, or simply someone unlucky enough to stand near a microphone. It may need the committee name, the location, the event, the year, the organization behind the banner, and the person half-visible at the edge of the frame. Journalism, as usual, ruins the demo. ...