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Firstpost @ Firstpost Tech 2 place · 04/02/2025 12:08 EDT

OpenAI's ChatGPT down again as Ghibli trend overwhelms chatbot

The Ghibli trend took social media by storm, which saw OpenAI adding over 1 million users in an hour. Interestingly, the company expanded the Ghibli style image generating tool for free users. However, due to the massive number of users, the company restricted it to only 3 image generations per day

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