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Prompting: How important is adding a description for reference images?

So for stuff like MiniMax's R2V, I noticed that a lot of the prompts that I see on places on Civitai include long, detailed descriptions for a reference image. Probably a dumb question, but why is this necessary when you are feeding the AI the actual image itself?

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  1. 2026-10-01 19:19 · r/StableDiffusion
    Prompting: How important is adding a description for reference images?

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