OpenAI has just released an exciting new feature to ChatGPT. Now users can create original images right from their text prompts 🙌 and it’s completely blowing up social media 🚀 On Tuesday, OpenAI began the gradual rollout of the new feature to ChatGPT PLUS, Pro, and Team users. It is rolling out to users on the chatbot’s free tier who are using the 4o model. As anime-style image renderings of users’ photos flood platforms like X, the viral success is straining OpenAI’s servers.
Because of the unprecedented demand for this new capability, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman announced temporary usage limits. These precautions are designed to maintain server health and optimize the user experience. These rate limits will have a direct effect on the rollout of native image gen in ChatGPT. Effective next month, free-tier users will only be able to create three images a day. Enterprise and Edu users should look for this feature next week!
In 2023, OpenAI significantly expanded the capabilities of ChatGPT with new image-generation capabilities. This new development follows the successful launch of the Dall-E model in 2021. Dall-E was one of the first AI-driven image to text generators and has now been added into ChatGPT, making its use even more dynamic.
“Super fun seeing people love images.” – OpenAI CEO Sam Altman
The sudden spike in usage of the feature has so many people flocking to ChatGPT at once that it’s making OpenAI’s GPUs melt from the heavy load. Sam Altman mockingly congratulated himself on the winning new feature. He apparently likes it so much he changed his X profile photo to an image generated through the tool!
OpenAI is doing everything they can to get the system running faster and accommodate even more demand. Users are eager to push the creative boundaries this cutting-edge technology unlocks. As OpenAI looks to increase access and improve performance, their goal is to temper user excitement with what’s actually doable from a technical perspective.