ChatGPT down as users flock to AI platform to make Studio Ghibli images

OpenAI's ChatGPT was down for several users across the world, amid users using the chatbot to create Studio Ghibli-styled animated avatars. ChatGPT down: Internet is flooded with memes, scenes and photographs in the Studio Ghibli style DownDetector, a website that tracks outages, witnessed 229 complaints by users about OpenAI. OpenAI released its most advanced image generator through an update on Chat GPT-4o, allowing users to generate images in Hayao Miyazaki's hand-drawn animation style that featured in Oscar winning films such as "Spirited Away" and "The Boy and the Heron". While OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman acknowledged the craze for Ghibli style images, he revealed that the “GPUs are melting”.