In ChatGPT: make animated GIFs and save your photos for later chats
OpenAI launched Images 2.6, which generates images 50% faster, and now adds GIFs and named saved photos.
ChatGPT can now make pictures move and create short animated files. You can also save a photo with a name and use it later. Check your privacy settings before uploading photos of people.
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Why it matters
You can now animate a picture with a simple description and reuse a saved photo in later chats.
Try it: save photos of children or others only with their consent.
The details
- OpenAI introduced Images 2.6 on November 4 in ChatGPT, Codex and the .
- OpenAI says images generate 50% faster and edits keep clothing, faces and product details better.
- For GIFs you describe the motion or upload a still image and ask to animate it, then adjust the speed and save or share the file.
- ChatGPT cannot edit an animated GIF that you upload. As of November 7 the help page said the feature was still rolling out, so it may not be in every account yet.
- Saved photos: upload a photo, name it, and call it later with @. It stays in your account until you remove it.
- OpenAI says ChatGPT images carry Content Credentials and an invisible SynthID watermark, and does not list GIFs separately.
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