Make YouTube videos inside ChatGPT
Ask ChatGPT for a faceless video, a thumbnail or channel research, and it gets made on your Digital Maker.AI account, on your plan, saved to your library. It is the same connector as our Claude integration, and setup takes about five minutes.
Watch how to connect it
A walkthrough of every step below, from creating your link to making your first video in ChatGPT.
What ChatGPT can do once connected
Make faceless videos
Multi scene with a fresh AI image every scene, single scene built around one held image, or whiteboard in the new Story Boards look (drawings build up on a board, linked by arrows) or the classic look, with an optional drawing hand. 7 visual styles, 102 voices in US, UK and AU accents plus your own cloned voices, subtitles and 5 languages. ChatGPT walks you through the options or picks sensible ones for you.
Make vertical Shorts
15, 30, 45 or 60 second 9:16 Shorts for YouTube, TikTok and Reels. Each one costs a flat single minute from your pool, whatever the length.
Add background music
Pick a track or just a mood: reflective, epic, calm, dark and more. In ChatGPT you can play each track before choosing, and set it quiet, normal or loud.
Put your AI presenter on screen
Pick one of your presenters by their face and choose how much of the video they present, full screen, split screen or in a corner circle. Paid from avatar time, not video minutes.
Animate your scenes
Once a video is finished, ChatGPT shows its scenes as a grid. Tick the ones you want moving and press Animate. Uses your included animated scenes, never your video minutes.
Make Animated Podcasts
Two AI hosts talking through any topic in five tones. ChatGPT draws the studio for you to approve, then makes the episode.
Post to your socials
Publish a finished video to your connected TikTok, Instagram or YouTube, now or at a set time. ChatGPT always checks the video, title and caption with you first.
Create recurring characters
Describe a character and ChatGPT draws a full-body reference. Put them in any multi scene video and they appear in every shot. Keep up to 10, and use them in thumbnails too.
Research faceless channels
Search the Faceless Finder database by niche or channel name. Get subscribers, upload frequency, video length and estimated monthly earnings, plus whether they sell digital products.
Check trends
See whether a niche is growing or dying, what people search around it, and video ideas for it, from the Trend Finder.
Generate thumbnails and channel art
YouTube thumbnails, channel banners, logos and product mockups, each made at the right proportions automatically.
Check on your work
Ask if a video is ready and get the link when it lands. List everything you have made: videos, ebooks and images. See your plan and minutes left.
Save to Google Drive
Say "put that in my Drive" and a finished video or image is sent to your connected Google Drive. It costs nothing.
Before you start
Setting it up
Get the ChatGPT desktop app
Download it from chatgpt.com/download and sign in. Plugins only work in the desktop app, not on the ChatGPT website.
Create your ChatGPT link in Digital Maker AI
Sign in, open Account Settings, then the ChatGPT tab, and click Create my ChatGPT link. Copy the link straight away: it is only shown once. Treat it like a password.
Switch to Work and open Plugin Creator
In the ChatGPT desktop app, switch the toggle at the top from Chat to Work, start a new chat and choose Plugin Creator.
Paste this prompt and send it
Put your own link in place of the brackets and keep everything else exactly as written. The last line matters: without it, ChatGPT tries to build a new plugin instead of connecting yours. It takes about a minute. If it says the live connection has not been verified, that is normal: open the link it gives you to enable it. The ChatGPT tab in Account Settings shows this prompt with your link already filled in.
Add a custom MCP server called Digital Maker AI. [paste your ChatGPT link here] With no authentication. I only want to connect this existing server, not build anything new.
Check it is under Personal
Go to Plugins and click Personal instead of Public. If Digital Maker AI is listed there, it is ready to use. There is nothing to install.
Start a Work chat and pick it with @
Start a new Work chat, type @ and click Digital Maker AI in the list so it turns into a blue tag, then ask for what you want. Do not type the name out by hand, or it will not connect.
Try asking for
What your plan includes
FreeVery little is included, so the connector can do almost nothing.
ProImages, characters, channel research and trends. Video through ChatGPT needs Premium.
PremiumEverything, with videos up to 30 minutes long.
UltimateEverything, with videos up to 60 minutes long.
Good to know
ChatGPT asks before spending your minutes
Videos cost the same as in the app: one minute from your monthly pool per minute of video, or a flat one minute for a vertical Short. ChatGPT asks you to approve actions before they run. Leave "Approve for me" switched off if you want to confirm each one.
Your link is a password
Anyone who has your link can use your account. Keep it out of screenshots and videos. If it gets out, remove it in Account Settings and create a new one.
Desktop app first
Plugins are marked Desktop only in ChatGPT. If Digital Maker AI does not appear, check you are in the desktop app and switched to Work.
If something is not working
ChatGPT says it cannot access my account
The plugin was not attached to that chat. Start a new Work chat, type @ and click Digital Maker AI in the list rather than typing its name. When it is attached, Digital Maker AI appears under Sources on the right.
Digital Maker AI does not appear when I type @
Check you are in the ChatGPT desktop app, not the website, and that the top is switched to Work, not Chat. Then check Plugins, Personal: if Digital Maker AI is not listed there, run the prompt again in Plugin Creator.
ChatGPT started building a new plugin
The prompt was missing its last line. Start a new Plugin Creator chat and paste the prompt again, including "I only want to connect this existing server, not build anything new."
It stopped working
Your link may have been removed or gone unused for 90 days. Create a new one in Account Settings, then run the prompt again in Plugin Creator with the new link.
Prefer Claude? The same connector works there too. See Digital Maker.AI in Claude.