OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, in a recent post on X, has teased Ghibli users with a version 2 of the feature, which he feels people are not ready for.
Sam Altman hints at version 2 of Studio Ghibli-style images
Hinting at even more advanced features after a week of overwhelming demand, he wrote on Wednesday, "y'all are not ready for images v2..."
Studio Ghibli-style images have already triggered a viral trend.
Social media is now flooded with images based on the hand-drawn style of the famed Japanese animation outfit, Studio Ghibli, founded by renowned director Hayao Miyazaki and known for movies such as "Spirited Away" and "My Neighbor Totoro".
The frenzy to generate Ghibli-style AI art using ChatGPT's image-generation tool made a record surge in users for OpenAI's chatbot last week.
"We added one million users in the last hour," OpenAI CEO Sam Altman disclosed in an X post on Monday, comparing it with the addition of one million users in five days following ChatGPT's super launch more than two years ago.
Incidentally, Sam Altman reacted to a social media post featuring Prime Minister Narendra Modi in a Ghibli-style animation.
Using Ghibli, India government’s official MyGov account on X, depicted PM Modi in a variety of scenes: shaking hands with US President Donald Trump, posing with French President Emmanuel Macron, playing with lion cubs, and visiting the Ram temple in Ayodhya.
The caption for the post read, “Main character? No. He’s the whole storyline. Experience through New India in Studio Ghibli strokes.”
Sam Altman reposted it along with an Indian flag emoji, sparking a flood of reactions from netizens.
According to SensorTower datactive users, in-app subscription revenue and app downloads reached an all-time high last week after the AI company launched updates to its GPT-4o model, enabling advanced image generation capabilities.
“Can yall please chill on generating images this is insane our team needs sleep,” Altman wrote in a post on X.
In reply to another post, Altman delved into the toll the new ChatGPT update has taken on his company. He wrote, “We just haven’t been able to catch up since launch so people are still working to keep the service up. biblical demand, i have never seen anything like it.”
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