Greetings from Costa Rica! The image fun continues.

We Are Going to Need A Bigger Compute Budget

Fun is being had by all, now that OpenAI has dropped its rule about not mimicking existing art styles.

Sam Altman (2:11pm, March 31): the chatgpt launch 26 months ago was one of the craziest viral moments i’d ever seen, and we added one million users in five days.

We added one million users in the last hour.

Sam Altman (8:33pm, March 31): chatgpt image gen now rolled out to all free users!

Slow down. We’re going to need you to have a little less fun, guys.

Sam Altman: it's super fun seeing people love images in chatgpt.

but our GPUs are melting.

we are going to temporarily introduce some rate limits while we work on making it more efficient. hopefully won’t be [...]

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Outline:

(00:15) We Are Going to Need A Bigger Compute Budget

(02:21) Defund the Fun Police

(06:06) Fun the Artists

(12:22) The No Fun Zone

(14:49) So Many Other Things to Do

(15:08) Self Portrait

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First published:
April 3rd, 2025

Source:
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/GgNdBz5FhvqMJs5Qv/more-fun-with-gpt-4o-image-generation

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Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.

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