ChatGPT temporarily down due to pressure from cartoon trend

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30-03-2025, 17:16

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The popular chatbot ChatGPT experienced a temporary outage this morning due to heavy load on its servers following a widespread trend on social media, in which users are turning their personal photos into cartoons, especially those inspired by the famous Japanese Studio Ghibli style.

Technical reports confirmed that ChatGPT's image generation feature has witnessed unprecedented demand over the past few hours from millions of users wanting to try out the new cartoon effect. This has strained the tool's servers and led to a temporary shutdown, with alerts appearing to users stating that requests cannot be processed at this time.

OpenAI is expected to issue an official statement in the coming hours explaining the reasons for the outage and steps to address it.