Netizens could not keep calm after Open AI rolled out ChatGPT’s native image generation to free users, and a massive number of Studio Ghibli style images flooded the internet.

The viral craze was such that ChatGPT recorded one million users in just an hour, already adding to the othet one million that the chat bot recorded in five days.

“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 announced on X.

The CEO further stated that “image generation has now been rolled out to free users.”

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First Published:1 Apr 2025, 06:41 AM IST