ChatGPT’s viral image-generation upgrade is ruining the chatbot for everyone
About a week ago, OpenAI announced its newest image generator, building the GPT-4o image generator tool directly into ChatGPT and Sora. The service went viral … The post ChatGPT’s viral image-generation upgrade is ruining the chatbot for everyone appeared first on BGR.
About a week ago, OpenAI announced its newest image generator, building the GPT-4o image generator tool directly into ChatGPT and Sora. The service went viral immediately, with ChatGPT users generating tons of images in the following days.
An unfortunate Studio Ghibli-style trend followed, with ChatGPT users using the style for all sorts of images. The AI also helped them produce deepfakes featuring celebrities. All the while, OpenAI touted the services' freedom and laxer safety rules while repeatedly mentioning the increased stress the OpenAI servers are under now that ChatGPT is being assaulted for image generation purposes.
Those remarks about GPUs melting had a double meaning. It suggested that some performance issues across other AI features would have to suffer, including the base ChatGPT chatbot functionalities. Meanwhile, users experienced ChatGPT issues, yours truly included.
ChatGPT was slower to respond at times and even failed to generate replies in the past few days. ChatGPT also went down following the intensive strain on the servers from users who might have signed up just to make Studio Ghibli images. And yes, ChatGPT Free users are able to use the 4o image generator, though limits are in place.
On Tuesday, Sam Altman took to X to address concerns about ChatGPT's performance. He also said it will take a while for OpenAI to catch up to demand.
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