OpenAI has been doubling its audience for ChatGPT at a rapid rate, and the addition of its latest image generation feature has increased the AI assistant's popularity. Today, CEO Sam Altman posted to X that the service "added one million users in the last hour,

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said in a post on X that ChatGPT added "one million users in the last hour." The big picture: The adoption of ChatGPT appears to be accelerating. Driving the news: OpenAI last week released a new-image generating feature that sparked a wave of Studio Ghibli,

ChatGPT's image generation feature is now available to free users, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has said. The decision came after days of an unprecedented response to the new feature, generating AI images, particularly the iconic Studio Ghibli-inspired art, on social media.

ChatGPT is OpenAI’s chatbot model designed to operate in a “conversational way.” It was launched on Nov. 30, 2022 as a sibling to OpenAI’s InstructGPT, which was trained to follow instructions more than have a dialogue with users.

OpenAI updated ChatGPT's content moderation policies to allow AI images depicting public figures, hateful symbols, and racial features.

Upon request, ChatGPT will now make images of public figures, hateful symbols, and potentially controversial posts