OpenAI enables GIF creation in ChatGPT with Images 2.6 update

ChatGPT can now turn a text prompt or an uploaded photo into an animated GIF, with controls for speed and individual frames ChatGPT can now make GIFs. You can start from a written prompt or a photo you upload, and the chatbot returns a looping animation instead of a single still image. The feature is rolling out alongside OpenAI’s new Images 2.6 model, according to The Verge. The internet’s favorite reaction format finally has a native home inside the world’s most famous chatbot. What the GIF tool actually does The workflow is simple on purpose. You describe what you want, or hand ChatGPT a picture, and it animates the result. Once the GIF exists, you get some control over it. Users can change the animation speed, edit individual frames, and share the finished file with other people. OpenAI’s own demo is about as on-brand for the internet as it gets. The prompt was “can you make a gif of a cat dancing?” ChatGPT produced the animation and offered options to adjust playback speed and step through it frame by frame. Frame-level editing matters more than it sounds. It means you are not stuck rerolling the whole animation because one frame came out wrong. You can fix the weird paw and k...