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ChatGPT 'Added One Million Users In the Last Hour'

(Monday March 31, 2025 @05:40PM (BeauHD) from the server-hamsters-need-a-break dept.)


OpenAI is having [1]another viral moment after releasing Images for ChatGPT last week, with millions of people creating Studio Ghibli-inspired AI art. In [2]a post on X today, CEO Sam Altman said the company has "added one million users in the last hour" alone. A few days prior he begged users to stop generating images because he said " [3]our GPUs are melting ."



[1] https://slashdot.org/story/25/03/27/0023207/openais-viral-studio-ghibli-moment-highlights-ai-copyright-concerns

[2] https://x.com/sama/status/1906771292390666325

[3] https://slashdot.org/story/25/03/28/003227/openai-says-our-gpus-are-melting-as-it-limits-chatgpt-image-generation-requests



Can't help but think those are related. (Score:5, Insightful)

by Frobnicator ( 565869 )

OpenAI CEO: We're limiting numbers to 2 images per account per day for free accounts.

Also OpenAI CEO: These images are popular, we've seen millions of new accounts making the images.

I can't help but put these two things together.

Re: (Score:2)

by nightflameauto ( 6607976 )

> OpenAI CEO: We're limiting numbers to 2 images per account per day for free accounts.

> Also OpenAI CEO: These images are popular, we've seen millions of new accounts making the images.

> I can't help but put these two things together.

If one were to believe the executives were smart, and were trying to drive user numbers, they may have planned the whole thing. Not sure if they are that smart though. I don't know that anybody with real intelligence would be so gung-ho about creating artificial intelligence.

Real users, or bots? (Score:4, Interesting)

by ebunga ( 95613 )

The world wonders.

real, obviously (Score:1, Interesting)

by Anonymous Coward

This is the first time the AI images have moved from "wow this is cool, and slightly scary, but what would I use this for" to "holy shit, these are legitimately good drawings". The old ones usually "looked like AI" which is to say, the drawings were recognizably bad. No longer true. You could take a family photo, muppetize it (or ghiblize it), print it and hang it up in your house. Unless you know senior people in the animation industry you probably don't know anyone who could draw as well as what comes out

I asked ChatGPT to create one million new users (Score:5, Funny)

by jfdavis668 ( 1414919 )

I guess it worked.

GPUs melting? (Score:2)

by smooth wombat ( 796938 )

Sounds like good news for Nvidia. More sales on the way.

Other AIs (Score:3)

by jbeaupre ( 752124 )

How many of those million users are AI training programs?

Will they compensate Studio Ghibli? (Score:2)

by dskoll ( 99328 )

LOL, that's so naive! That's not how rip-off capitalism works... artists don't deserve compensation! :)

After all these billions ... (Score:2)

by gilgongo ( 57446 )

Creating Studio Ghibli-inspired AI art seems unbelievably anticlimactic for the most hyped tech this century.

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