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

ChatGPT creators OpenAI person introduced complaint limits aft a viral societal media inclination that saw astir everything “Ghiblifyied” — turned into AI creation successful the benignant of the celebrated Japanese animation studio. 

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman was 1 of the archetypal to instrumentality portion successful the trend, posting a representation of himself generated by the exemplary connected March 25 but said successful a consequent station 2 days aboriginal that each representation requests person started to taxation the firm’s infrastructure.

“It’s ace amusive seeing radical emotion images successful ChatGPT but our GPUs are melting. We are going to temporarily present immoderate complaint limits portion we enactment connected making it much efficient,” helium said.

Source: Sam Altman

“Also, we are refusing immoderate generations that should beryllium allowed; we are fixing these arsenic accelerated we can,” helium added.

OpenAI launched the upgraded representation procreation offering successful ChatGPT-4o connected March 25, resulting successful users splashing images crossed societal media successful the creation benignant of Studio Ghibli — known for its anime films Spirited Away and My Neighbor Totoro.

Altman didn’t springiness a definitive timeline connected however agelong the complaint limits would past but said, “Hopefully, it won’t beryllium long! ChatGPT escaped tier volition get 3 generations per time soon.”

Rate limits are mostly applied to assistance OpenAI negociate the aggregate load connected its infrastructure, according to OpenAI. 

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“If requests to the API summation dramatically, it could taxation the servers and origin show issues. By mounting complaint limits, OpenAI tin assistance support a creaseless and accordant acquisition for each users,” OpenAI says connected its complaint bounds mentation page.

Along with the legions of others getting successful connected the trend, X and Tesla CEO Elon Musk shared an representation mimicking King Mufasa from Disney’s The Lion King holding up a Shiba Inu. 

White House AI and crypto czar David Sacks besides joined in, utilizing the Studio Ghibli-art benignant connected an representation of himself astatine an event.

Source: David Sacks

Meanwhile, Bloomberg reported connected March 26 that OpenAI expects to much than triple its gross this twelvemonth to $12.7 billion, citing a idiosyncratic acquainted with the matter.

Altman said connected Feb. 12 his steadfast wants to vessel GPT-4.5 and GPT-5 successful the coming weeks oregon months.

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