ChatGPT 'Added One Million Users In the Last Hour' 30
OpenAI is having another viral moment after releasing Images for ChatGPT last week, with millions of people creating Studio Ghibli-inspired AI art. In a post on X today, CEO Sam Altman said the company has "added one million users in the last hour" alone. A few days prior he begged users to stop generating images because he said "our GPUs are melting."
Can't help but think those are related. (Score:5, Insightful)
OpenAI CEO: We're limiting numbers to 2 images per account per day for free accounts.
Also OpenAI CEO: These images are popular, we've seen millions of new accounts making the images.
I can't help but put these two things together.
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OpenAI CEO: We're limiting numbers to 2 images per account per day for free accounts.
Also OpenAI CEO: These images are popular, we've seen millions of new accounts making the images.
I can't help but put these two things together.
If one were to believe the executives were smart, and were trying to drive user numbers, they may have planned the whole thing. Not sure if they are that smart though. I don't know that anybody with real intelligence would be so gung-ho about creating artificial intelligence.
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No one with REAL intelligence would believe their AI/Neural net is actually Intelligent and know it was just a mostly well trained massive pattern matching program with no actual understanding of the underlying data. Hence the misfiring when the pattern matching does not quite match what it was trained on and giving random responses that make little or no sense but were the closest match.
Too many clueless people parroting AGI is just around the corner, when we really do not even have very good task specif
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No one really even knows what REAL intelligence even is or how to define it; that means it often ends up being in the eye of the beholder.
I like the functionalist approach: debates over what constitutes "real intelligence" are a pointless parlor game. Either a particular computer system gives you results that are useful to you, or it doesn't. Call it whatever you like, it doesn't matter and probably wouldn't fit well into any preconceived category anyway.
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Most of us know what real intelligence is when we see it.
Yes, precisely; that is what people say [wikipedia.org] when they can intuitively recognize a thing but can't come up with a good definition for it.
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Real users, or bots? (Score:4, Interesting)
The world wonders.
real, obviously (Score:1, Interesting)
This is the first time the AI images have moved from "wow this is cool, and slightly scary, but what would I use this for" to "holy shit, these are legitimately good drawings". The old ones usually "looked like AI" which is to say, the drawings were recognizably bad. No longer true. You could take a family photo, muppetize it (or ghiblize it), print it and hang it up in your house. Unless you know senior people in the animation industry you probably don't know anyone who could draw as well as what comes out
Whattabout comics? [Re:real, obviously] (Score:2)
I bet this will be the downfall of the comic book industry.
More specifically, the downfall of the comic book artist employment. If you can just describe what you want in the panels and the "AI" will do the art, you only need the writer.
(I expect the writers will be next in line, but so far AI writing is still laughable.)
Already sales have plummeted so far that the industry is on the verge of collapse
That's been going on for years, long before "AI" got involved.
and hardly anyone can afford to work for the rates the comic book publishers pay ... and the publishers cannot afford to pay more.
And with AI, they won't have to.
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Real users who want to transform photos into Studio Ghibli-like images but hit the limitation of 2 free images a day.
I asked ChatGPT to create one million new users (Score:5, Funny)
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next, can you ask it to create 11 billion new accounts, that way i can prove that ancient astronaut science is for real.
GPUs melting? (Score:2)
Sounds like good news for Nvidia. More sales on the way.
Other AIs (Score:3)
How many of those million users are AI training programs?
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How many of those million users are AI training programs?
That's a good question. Is this renderer good enough that AI trainers think they can do the "Human Centipede" thing with it and not risk model collapse [forbes.com]?
Will they compensate Studio Ghibli? (Score:4, Insightful)
LOL, that's so naive! That's not how rip-off capitalism works... artists don't deserve compensation! :)
After all these billions ... (Score:4, Insightful)
Creating Studio Ghibli-inspired AI art seems unbelievably anticlimactic for the most hyped tech this century.
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Creating Studio Ghibli-inspired AI art seems unbelievably anticlimactic for the most hyped tech this century.
Totally agree ... if that were the only thing that AI is being used for.
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Sure, I was being flippant. But the fact remains that a Titanic amount of money and computing is being used just to make (partly) derivative, if pretty, pictures.
Doesn't seem exactly profound, nor does it even seem to have any particularly compelling ROI. But I'm probably missing something...
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yes but now we can make porn in ghibli style without knowing how to draw or ever see another human being. i call that win-win
Re: After all these billions ... (Score:2)
Enjoy your cutesy characters while we psychoanalyze and categorize you for advertising and possible law enforcement use. Sweet deal for Sam. Capture a whole demographic. Well played.
There is a whole demographic that will next
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unbelievably anticlimactic
When the Internet was in its infancy, I had great hopes it was going to bring a new age of enlightenment and reason, since everybody had now easy access to information and could learn whatever they wanted and easily get at the truth of facts about almost anything.
Well, the Internet ended up being a bitter disappointment from the enlightenment point of view; it seems to be mostly used for dumb memes and cat videos :(. Based on this bitter lesson, I think AI will end up with a similar fate. The idiotic Ghibli
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When the Internet was in its infancy, I had great hopes it was going to bring a new age of enlightenment and reason, since everybody had now easy access to information and could learn whatever they wanted and easily get at the truth of facts about almost anything. Well, the Internet ended up being a bitter disappointment from the enlightenment point of view; it seems to be mostly used for dumb memes and cat videos :(.
Worse. It turned out to be an unbelievably effective medium for spreading propaganda and disinformation.
The hypothesis that in a free market of ideas, the truthful ideas would win out turned out to be wishful thinking. The actual case was, you can craft misinformation to captivate to a target audience, and deliberately crafted deception beats out messy and complicated truth.
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Boring⦠(Score:1)