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‘Our GPUs are melting’ — Openai will place the limiter after Ghibli-Tsunami


ChatGPT creators Openai introduced rate limits after a viral trend of social media who saw almost all of the “ghiblified” – became Ai Art in the style of the famous Japanese animation studio.

Openai CEO Sam Altman was one of the first to take part in the trend, Post A picture of himself formed by the model on March 25 but Says In the next post two days later all image requests began to tax the company’s infrastructure.

“It’s nice to see people who love the images at ChatGPT but our GPUs melts. We’re going to temporarily introduce some rate limits as we do it better,” he said.

Source: Sam Altman

“Also, we reject some generations to allow; we fix them quickly,” he added.

Openai launched The that -upgrade generation of image that offers to Chatgpt-4O On March 25, resulting in users who wash images throughout social media in Studio Ghibli’s art style – known in its anime films Spirited away and My neighbor Totoro.

Altman didn’t give a certain timeline to how long the rate limits would last but said, “Hopefully, it’s not long! Chatgpt Free Tier will get three generations per day soon.”

Rate limitations are usually applied to help Openai manage the combined -joint load on its infrastructure, According to to open.

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“If the API requests rise significantly, it can tax the servers and cause performance issues. By setting rate limits, Openai can help maintain a smooth and consistent experience for all users,” Openai told the rate explanation page of its rate.

In conjunction with the legions of others entering the trend, X and Tesla CEO Elon Musk shared An image that mimics King mufasa from Disney The Lion King Holding a shiba Inu.

White House Ai and Crypto Czar David Sacks Din Join In, using the Ghibli-art style studio in an image of itself in an event.

Source: David Sacks

Meanwhile, meanwhile Bloomberg reported on March 26 that Openai expects In more than triple this year this year at $ 12.7 billion, citing someone familiar with this matter.

Altman said in February. 12 His firm would like to send GPT-4.5 and GPT-5 in the coming weeks or months.

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