How DALL-E appears in the source material In the channel's captured material, DALL-E shows up as OpenAI's image-generation tool, invoked from inside a custom GPT. While Logan Kilpatrick and Dan Shipper build the Allocator strategy game, they find the model writing visual representation as plain text until they explicitly instruct it to use DALL-E to visualize each step of the game. [^01a0f15b-3407-78e4-9a1c-de04fa55d0bf@5033] Once wired in, DALL-E renders the game's consequences — for example, after the player reallocates FDR's 1933 budget 50/50 between public works and social programs, a DALL-E image renders the decision in an Art-Deco style before the Dust Bowl arrives as a Decision Point. [^01a0f15b-3407-78e4-9a1c-de04fa55d0bf@5617] Why it matters in the build Two lessons come out of the usage: - Tools must be named explicitly. A custom GPT won't reliably reach for DALL-E unless its instructions say to — visual output was missing until the instruction was added. - Image generation was treated as a free layer, alongside web browsing and the code interpreter, in a build that used no game engine, no paid image generation, and almost no code. [^01a0f15b-3407-78e4-9a1c-de04fa55d0bf@5033] - DALL-E is used as the image-generation tool inside the custom GPT build. [^01a0f15b-3407-78e4-9a1c-de04fa55d0bf@5033] - The GPT had to be explicitly instructed to use DALL-E to visualize each step. [^01a0f15b-3407-78e4-9a1c-de04fa55d0bf@5033] - In play, a DALL-E image rendered a budget reallocation in an Art-Deco style. [^01a0f15b-3407-78e4-9a1c-de04fa55d0bf@5617]