Sam Altman Teases Studio Ghibli Photos Version 2 Following Massive Success

Studio Ghibli Photos Version 2: Last week, OpenAI's chatbot had a record-breaking spike in users due to the craze for creating Ghibli-style AI art using ChatGPT's image-generation tool. This briefly limited the use of the feature and put a burden on the company's infrastructure.

Everyone on the internet, including politicians and influencers, flocked to ChatGPT this week to have their images transformed into Studio Ghibli-style artwork. A record number of people used OpenAI's chatbot as a result of the craze to use the new image-generation tool. The CEO of OpenAI has now hinted at a version 2 of the feature, which he believes users are not yet ready for.

"Y’all are not ready for images v2..." Altman posted on X (formerly Twitter), hinting at even more advanced features after a week of overwhelming demand.

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ChatGPT has been used by users all over the world to create artwork in the whimsical, hand-drawn style that has characterised Studio Ghibli's classic films like "Spirited Away" and "My Neighbour Totoro." At one point, the demand was so great that it put a strain on OpenAI's servers, briefly restricting the tool's availability.

According to data from market research firm Similarweb, the spike caused ChatGPT's weekly active users to cross 150 million for the first time this year.

Altman celebrated the success, highlighting the platform's rapid growth in a post on X: "We added one million users in the last hour," he wrote, comparing it to the initial launch days of ChatGPT, which saw similar rapid user adoption.

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OpenAI celebrates success

OpenAI’s ability to scale its infrastructure was tested as global app downloads, in-app subscriptions, and usage numbers soared.

SensorTower data confirmed an 11% increase in downloads and a 5% rise in weekly active users compared to the previous week, while in-app purchase revenue grew by 6%. Despite these successes, the surge in traffic resulted in glitches and intermittent outages, frustrating some users.

"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," Altman noted on Tuesday.

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