US EditionChatGPT sees record-breaking month following latest rollout and mania over Studio Ghibli-style images
- ChatGPT experienced record-breaking user numbers following the release of its new image generation tool last week.
- The surge followed the release of ChatGPT-4o and the trend of generating Studio Ghibli-style images.
- The Ghibli trend, combined with ChatGPT's advanced capabilities, and rollout to free users created the boost.
- SensorTower data showed app downloads increased 11%, in-app purchases rose 6%, and visits reached 4 billion in March.
- OpenAI faces GPU capacity issues, causing service disruptions, and expects delays in new releases, with copyright questions arising.
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ChatGPT's Ghibli trend environmental concern, generating single image consumes this much electricity
ChatGPT's new feature for generating Ghibli-style images has seen a warm reception from social media users. However, this surge in popularity recently caused the company's servers to crash. In light of this, CEO Sam Altman issued a plea for users to exercise restraint. While he praised the enthusiasm for creating Ghibli-style images through ChatGPT, he also expressed concern, stating that generative AI, while making tasks easier, presents signif…
OpenAI’s Ghibli Moment Spins Out of Control
Welcome to Tech In Depth, our daily newsletter with reporting and analysis about the business of tech from Bloomberg’s journalists around the world. Today, Ellen Huet looks at the way OpenAI reacted to the Studio Ghibli memes that flowed from users of its new AI image generator.
Why did ChatGPT go down this week? Blame the 700M AI images made by 130M users
ChatGPT experienced various service disruptions in the past week. The chatbot might have gone done for some, while others experienced slower overall performance. I've seen ChatGPT struggle with replies, and the AI went down at least once earlier this week. This happened at the same time OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said that the company's GPUs were melting following the massive demand for ChatGPT's newest feature, the 4o image generation model, which c…
Welcome to the age of Otaku
OpenAI’s “GPUs are melting”, announced CEO Sam Altman last Thursday as he scrambled to avert a ChatGPT apocalypse. What triggered the sudden shutdown? Not a cyberattack, nor a Terminator-style takeover. Rather, it was legions of users transfiguring themselves into Studio Ghibli anime characters inspired by the Japanese studio behind Spirited Away and Princess Mononoke. It all started last Tuesday when a relatively obscure tech entrepreneur, Grant
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