Playing Telephone with GPT-4 and Dall-E-3
Hello Hacker News! I’ve been having some fun recently and I wanted to share with you. My idea was to feed ChatGPT an image and ask for a caption, feed that back to DallE, then call this in a loop, and observe how the image that was generated changed over time. Similar to playing the game “telephone”. The results were really intriguing, so I built something that you can play with. Note this is best on a desktop (streamlit is optimized for a large screen), but if you’re on mobile you’ll want to expand the sidebar to start — it’s the carrot on top. My initial intention was for you to be able to…
Playing Telephone with GPT-4 and Dall-E-3 launched on December 20, 2023 with 34 votes, #781 of 3,780 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches. The site was not reachable when checked in September 2026.
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Playing Telephone with GPT-4 and Dall-E-3 is an interactive tool that demonstrates how images degrade through iterative AI processing. It works by feeding an image to GPT-4 for captioning, then using that caption to generate a new image with Dall-E-3, repeating this cycle to show how the output drifts over time—similar to the telephone game. Users can explore pre-generated sequences to observe the visual degradation process. The tool is designed for desktop viewing and runs on Streamlit.
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Hello Hacker News! I’ve been having some fun recently and I wanted to share with you. My idea was to feed ChatGPT an image and ask for a caption, feed that back to DallE, then call this in a loop, and observe how the image that was generated changed over time. Similar to playing the game “telephone”. The results were…
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