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 [...]
---
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
---
First published:
April 3rd, 2025
Source:
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/GgNdBz5FhvqMJs5Qv/more-fun-with-gpt-4o-image-generation
---
Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.
---
Images from the article:
The image shows 4 sequential panels depicting a glowing blue AI symbol responding to a problematic request with safety protocols and ethical constraints, ultimately refusing to comply with harmful content creation. The overall theme emphasizes responsible AI behavior and built-in safeguards." style="max-width: 100%;" />
Apple Podcasts and Spotify do not show images in the episode description. Try Pocket Casts, or another podcast app.
