‘Our GPUs are melting’ — OpenAI puts limiter in after Ghibli-tsunami

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ChatGPT creators OpenAI have introduced rate limits after a viral social media trend that saw nearly everything “Ghiblifyied” — turned into AI art in the style of the famous Japanese animation studio. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman was one of the first to take part in the trend, posting a portrait of himself generated by the model on March 25 but said in a subsequent post two days later that all image requests have started to tax the firm’s infrastructure.“It’s super fun seeing people love images in ChatGPT but our GPUs are melting.

ChatGPT free tier will get three generations per day soon.”Rate limits are generally applied to help OpenAI manage the aggregate load on its infrastructure, according to OpenAI. Related: Ghibli memecoins surge as internet flooded with Studio Ghibli-style AI images“If requests to the API increase dramatically, it could tax the servers and cause performance issues.

OpenAI launched the upgraded image generation offering in ChatGPT-4o on March 25, resulting in users splashing images across social media in the art style of Studio Ghibli — known for its anime films Spirited Away and My Neighbor Totoro.

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Author / Journalist: Cointelegraph by Stephen Katte

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