‘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. Notably, OpenAI rolled out its native image generation feature recently that allows users to take advantage of the ChatGPT's image generation capabilities to create more nuanced pictures and also edit their current images. OpenAI said on Wednesday that ChaGPT's new native image generation feature was rolling out to Plus, Pro, Team and Free users of the chatbot on Wednesday.