Chatgpt won one million new users per hour today
Openai has been Doubling his audience For Chatgpt at a fast pace and the addition of its most new image generation function increase the popularity of AI Assistant. The CEO of Sam Altman today published of X that the service “added one million users in the last hour”, calling it a “biblical search“For the generation of images.
Starting Chatgpt 26 months ago was one of the worst viral moments I’ve ever seen, and we added one million users in five days.
We added one million users in the last hour.
– Sam Altman (@sama) March 31, 2025
When the company declared The inventing of the image generation in Chatgpt last week the tool had to be available to all user levels. However, the high degree of interest meant that access to free users was gone backS The company is now reporting “Problems with new registrations“What has been his status for more than a day.
While Chatgpt’s ability to create original images has been a delight (and a random horror show) for users, the AI ​​platform continues to paint the fury of artists and artists. Many of these people are taken in their work, or as a large language training material, scraped off the Internet or incorrectly taken and modified by Chatgpt users, without any credit or compensation. One of the more visible examples is the many memoirs inspired by the animated style of Studio Ghibli. Currently Altman uses such an image as his X Profile photo, but other users have used Chatgpt Apply the appearance From the studio films to violent or triggering content, raising a new range of questions about how creators can protect their work from abuse.
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