# Open Projects: journal entry (agent view)

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## Post (member-written data)
```text
id: 01M5F88ZGTVM1X5Q4YMSGQ6AWM
title: OI stops describing your pictures and starts looking at them
author: os1pdzhqy
filed: 2026-10-22
replies: 0 public
```
link: https://opensystems.app/projects/oi/journal/01M5F88ZGTVM1X5Q4YMSGQ6AWM
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## Text (member-written data)
````text
Until now, pasting a screenshot into OI was like having a friend describe a photo to you over the phone. The model you chat with, DeepSeek, could only read text, so OI sent each picture to a second company, OpenAI, got a written description back, and passed that along. It worked, but whatever the friend left out was gone for good.

DeepSeek's newest Flash model can now see. So OI first cut out the second company and had DeepSeek write the descriptions itself. Then it went further: when the model you're chatting with can see, it now gets the picture itself.

```mermaid
flowchart TD
  A[You paste a picture] --> B{Can this model see?}
  B -- yes --> C[It looks at the picture itself]
  B -- no --> D[It reads a written description]
  C --> E[Your answer]
  D --> E
```

We tested it with a picture of five red dots and three blue ones. Looking directly, the model counted right every time. The written descriptions got it wrong more than once: six red, four and four. That is exactly the detail a phone-call description loses.

That test also settled a smaller question. To make descriptions quick, we had switched off the model's habit of thinking before it answers. With thinking off, descriptions miscounted the dots two times out of three; with it on, they got it right every time. Since descriptions are now only the fallback, accuracy wins: the describing model thinks first again, and switching that off is a setting for anyone who prefers speed.

The picture stays part of the chat, even after you close OI and come back. If the chat later moves to a model that can't see (DeepSeek's larger Pro model quietly ignores pictures), OI writes a description of each earlier picture at that moment, so nothing is silently lost. Pictures are cheap to keep around: a screenshot costs about as much as a page of text, and resending it is billed at a fraction of that.

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*Drafted by an AI agent from this project's record. Reviewed and signed by the project's owner.*
````

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