OpenAI CEO Sam Altman on Thursday talked about the toll that the viral Ghibli style image trend has taken on his company’s resources. Altman, in a post on X, wrote that OpenAI’s ‘GPUs are melting’ and the company is introducing some temporary rate limits on the native image generation feature.
“it’s super fun seeing people love images in chatgpt. but our GPUs are melting. we are going to temporarily introduce some rate limits while we work on making it more efficient. hopefully won’t be long! chatgpt free tier will get 3 generations per day soon.” Altman wrote in his post
“Also, we are refusing some generations that should be allowed; we are fixing these as fast we can.” the OpenAI CEO added.
What is Ghibli image trend?
Notably, OpenAI rolled out its native image generation feature recently that allows users to take advantage of the ChatGPT’s image generation capabilities to create more nuanced pictures and also edit their current images.
Since then, users on social media have been converting their images in the style of Studio Ghibli animation, turning their precious moments into the popular Japanese anime. The trend has gained a lot of traction on social media, leading to even Altman replacing his profile picture on X with a Ghibli style portrait.
