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by planetsprite 1295 days ago
One interesting next step to the idea is to indicate a continuity of meaning via the edits. For example, for each randomly selected gif, have the next gif share at least one tag. This allows each vaguely connected gif to create a randomly generated narrative by their connected meaning.
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This will likely lead to some unexpected detrimental paths like endless videos of cats. But I like the general idea of continuity!

Without any storytelling this generator becomes boring very fast.

Maybe keep track of the last n tags used and only select gifs based on tags not in that list?
It should be possible to be even more prescriptive. E.g. write a "screenplay" (or even let GPT3 generate it) -- basically just a progression of tags -- and then pick random videos that match that.
www.radioparadise.com does this with song titles