Decided to try out one of the new features in GPT Image 2.6: the ability to natively generate animated GIF files.

I didn't have high expectations, and I still think you can probably get better results by doing a First-Last-Frame using something like Minimax H3 but I was still rather surprised that it could do it at all.

Here are some of the results. The last one shows its ability to take an existing image and convert it into an animated GIF. It's a picture of my husky inside a snow globe.

https://imgpb.com/OzSMKJ

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minimaxir 6 hours ago | parent [-]

The splotchiness on that simple chess animation makes this GIF feature a nonstarter.

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vunderba 5 hours ago | parent | next [-]

That's a bit hyperbolic. The windmill one is honestly not terrible (slight flicker on the door).

Honestly, you have to think about the use case. GIFs are going to be little throwaway things that you're pasting into Discord or meme-ing.

Nobody's reaching for a GIF if they're looking for professional results.

It's a shame that the SVG output seems to be limited to static vector graphics only though - or rather I couldn't get it to produce anything with the <animate> attribute.

	▲	brian-armstrong 5 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Everyone is highly sensitive to slop, and it still looks like slop. If you actually want something that looks decent, it feels like tool use would at least help cover the obvious blunders. Building layers to composite would go a long way to removing some slop here.
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MattDamonSpace 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Yeahhhh but that’s like saying Dall-E isn’t good enough

Ain’t wrong buuuuut…