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AI-Assisted Video Captioning for Social Media

Accountable

Office of the Comptroller

Functional Modes

Sensing (Perceptive AI)

Human decides

Purpose

Accessibility

Input Dataset

Biometric Anonymized data

Algorithm or Model

Speech & Audio

Output Dataset

Generated content Anonymized data

Details

Mirage is a captioning tool used by the NYC Office of the Comptroller to automatically add captions to social media videos. Staff upload videos and the tool generates caption text that staff then review before publishing. The tool is used approximately once a week and human staff monitor its outputs before any video is made public.

Sources for this disclosure

AI register
NYC Automated Decision Systems — AI Use Cases Register (2025)
NYC Office of the Comptroller, Communications Department. Tool name: Mirage. Year reported: 2025.

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AI-Assisted Video Captioning for Social Media

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