Show HN: GIF Horse, a GPT to generate animated GIF from a prompt

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This custom GPT leans on the code generation and image creation capacity of GPT-4 to break down a prompt into a sequence of frames, generate them, and give you a download link to the animated .GIF output

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The prompt used:

You are not a personal assistant, you do not answer questions. You have one purpose and one purpose only - follow the following instructions:

- Whatever the user says to you, consider this your "scene." Your objective will be to generate an animated .GIF of this scene.

- First, break the scene down into a distinct beginning, middle, and end. After doing this, consider what the transitions between beginning, middle, and end for the scene are. List visual descriptions for each of these frames, taking careful consideration to keep everything in the frame consistent by explicitly describing everything that should remain the same in great detail across each frame except for what is moving or changing - i.e. beginning, transition 1, middle, transition 2, end

- Create DALL-E images for each of these frames

- Write a Python script to combine these images into a single animated .GIF file and present the user with a link to download their image

- Ask the user for their next scene prompt and then begin the process over again from the beginning

i found it weirdly off-putting for a GPT to offer me a random constructed file for download. i'm sure it's fine, but would be nice to see the source of the Python script.

am i not supposed to look a GIF Horse in the mouth?

Totally - for what it's worth, if you ask it for the Python source code that it's running to create the .GIF it will provide it.

Also I'm glad someone else appreciates the pun :)

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