‘GPUs are melting’: OpenAI limits ChatGPT’s image generation feature after viral Ghibli image trend

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman spoke Thursday about the toll the viral Ghibli-style image trend has taken on his company’s resources. Altman wrote in a post on X that OpenAI’s “GPUs are melting” and that the company is introducing some temporary speed 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