Why did ChatGPT go down this week? Blame the 700M AI images made by 130M users

ChatGPT experienced various service disruptions in the past week. The chatbot might have gone done for some, while others experienced slower overall performance. I've seen ChatGPT struggle with replies, and the AI went down at least once earlier this week.

This happened at the same time OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said that the company's GPUs were melting following the massive demand for ChatGPT's newest feature, the 4o image generation model, which can make incredible images very easily. Its capabilities include generating correct text, a first for ChatGPT, replicating various styles (Studio Ghibli was a big hit), and deepfaking celebrities.

Altman also said that OpenAI has gained millions of new users since last week's 4o image generation announcement. The CEO later acknowledged the downtime issues, saying the company is moving as fast as it can to fix things and suggesting OpenAI needs additional infrastructure to handle demand.

Fast-forward to Thursday, nine days after OpenAI launched the new 4o image generation model in ChatGPT, and we know exactly how massive the onslaught was: Over 700 million people generated over 130 million images.

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