April 2 News.OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has made a series of posts on social media platform X revealing that the company's newly launched ChatGPT Image GenerationThe high popularity of the tool has triggered a number of problems such as product delays.
We're trying to get the situation under control," Altman said.However, users should expect a delay in the release of a new version of OpenAI, and some features may be glitchy, and that the service may slow down at times as we are dealing with a huge capacity challenge." He also emphasized that the team is working as fast as possible to get everything back up and running.
1AI notes that OpenAI's new image generation feature has attracted a lot of attention since its release, and has been praised for its ability to brilliantly recreate a variety of artistic styles, such as the hand-drawn animation style of Studio Ghibli, but it has also sparked some discussion about copyright and ethics. In a post on X over the weekend, Altman also said that the company has been "unable to keep up with demand" since the feature went live, and that employees have been working overtime, even on weekends, to "keep the service running."
According to Altman's post on Monday, ChatGPT added a million new subscribers in just one hour on Monday. He revealed that ChatGPT now has 500 million active weekly users and 20 million paid subscribers, which is rapid growth from the 300 million users and 15.5 million subscribers it had at the end of 2024.
To alleviate current capacity pressures, OpenAI has taken a number of steps, including delaying the opening of its image generation tools to free ChatGPT users and temporarily banning new users of Sora, the company's suite of generative AI media tools, from using the video generation feature.
