ChatGPT gained a million new customers in an hour ...

OpenAI has been doubling its audience for ChatGPT at a fast fee, and the addition of its newest picture technology function has elevated the AI assistant’s recognition. Right this moment, CEO Sam Altman posted to X that the service “added a million customers within the final hour,” calling it a “biblical demand” for the picture technology.

When the corporate announced the rollout of picture technology in ChatGPT final week, the software was meant to be out there to all person tiers. Nonetheless, the excessive diploma of curiosity meant that entry without spending a dime customers was walked back. Now, the corporate is reporting “issues with new signups,” which has been its standing for greater than a day.

Whereas ChatGPT’s skill to create authentic photos has been a delight (and occasional horror present) for customers, the AI platform continues to attract the ire of artists and creatives. Many of those folks have their work taken, both as coaching materials for the large-language mannequin scraped from the web or improperly taken and modified by ChatGPT customers, with none credit score or compensation. One of many extra seen examples have been the numerous memes picture impressed by the animation type of Studio Ghibli. Altman is at the moment utilizing one such picture as his X profile picture, however different customers have used ChatGPT to apply the look of the studio’s movies to violent or triggering content material, elevating a recent spherical of questions on how creators can shield their work from misuse.