The frenzy to create ghibli-style a art using chatgpt’s image-generation to a record surge in users for Openai’s Chatbot Last Week, Straining Its Servers and Tamporarily Limiting the FEATUREING the FEATUREING it.
The viral trend saw users from across the globe flood social media with images based on the hand-drawn style of the famed japanese animation Outfit, Stodio Ghibli, Stodio Ghibli, Founded DIREWNED DIREWNED DIREWNED DIREWNED DIREWNED DIREWNED DIREWNED DIREWNED DIRE Miyazaki and Known for Movies Such as “Spirited Away” and “My Neighbor Totoro”.
Average weekly Active Users Breed the 150 Million mark for the first time this year, according to data from market research firm Similarweb.
“We added one million users in the last hour,” Openai Ceo sam altman said in an x post on Monday, comparing it with the addition of one million users in five days following Chatgpt’s Red-hit launch more than two years ago.
Active Users, In -pp Subscription Revenue and App Downloads Reached an all-time high last week, according to sensorTower data, after the Ai Company launched updates to its GPT-4O Model, Enabling Advanced Image Generation Capabilites.
Global App Downloads and Weekly Active Users on the Chatgpt App Grew 11 Percent and Five Percent, Respectly, from the Prior Week, While in -PPP Purchase Revenue Increased Six Six Six percent Firm said.
However, the chatbot has been hit with a series of glitches and low-scale outages over the past week as it deals with a spike in traffic due to the popularity of its image-generating tool.
“We are getting things under control, but you should expect new releases from openai to be delayed, stuff to break, and for service to sometimes be slow as we deal with capacity challenges Said on Tuesday.
Legal uncertainty
The extensive use of the ai tool for the ghibli effect has also LED to Questions About Potential Copyright Violations.
“The legal landscape of ai-generated images Mimicking Studio Ghibli’s distinctive style is an uncertain terrain. Copyright law has generally protected on Artistic styles themselves, “Said Evan Brown, Partner at Law Firm Neal & Mcdevitt.
Openai did not immediatively respond to a request for comment on the data used to train its models and the legality surrounding its latest feature.
Studio Ghibli co-founder miyazaki’s comments from 2016 on ai-generated images resurred after the trend blew up last week.
“I am utterly disgusted,” Miyazaki had said after eating shown an early render of an ai-generated. “I would never wish to incorporate this technology into my work at all.”
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