Sam Altman Shares Adorable Ghibli-Style Illustration With Newborn Son
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman announced the arrival of his son with his husband, Oliver Mulherin, in an emotional post in February.
The internet is constantly buzzing with Ghibli-style edits inspired by the iconic Japanese animation studio, Studio Ghibli. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman triggered the trend when he announced a new feature of ChatGPT’s image generator that allows users to create illustrations in the signature Ghibli style just like those in animated films such as My Neighbor Totoro and Princess Mononoke. He even joined in by changing his profile picture on X to a Ghibli-inspired version of himself. And now, Altman has embraced the trend once more by sharing a heartwarming Ghibli-style illustration of himself and his newborn son.
The image captures an adorable father-son moment where Altman is seen peacefully napping with his son nestled in his arms.
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Altman had announced the arrival of his son with his partner, Oliver Mulherin, in an emotional post in February He had shared that the baby was born prematurely and was undergoing treatment in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU). Despite the challenging situation, Altman expressed his gratitude and joy, writing, “Welcome to the world, little guy! He came early and is going to be in the NICU for a while. He is doing well, and it’s really nice to be in a little bubble taking care of him. I have never felt such love."
Altman’s post captured significant attention online as it accumulated more than a million views so far. Social media users took to the comment section to share their reactions.
One user wrote, “This is such a lovely image/picture! I’ve been ghiblifying my precious family moments and it just hits different. Thanks for all the marvelous work you put into openai! Extremely happy customer."
Another shared, “This is lovely Sam. May you and your kid have a long and lovely life."
“That’s the cutest thing I’ve seen today!" someone expressed while another person described the image as “Soo peaceful and cutest."
As the excitement around Ghibli-style edits continues, Altman previously revealed that the AI platform gained one million new users in just an hour. In a post on Monday, Altman wrote, “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."
But the sudden popularity of the new feature has brought some challenges. Altman said the newfound craze has caused the company’s GPUs to overload. “It’s super fun seeing people love images in ChatGPT but our GPUs are melting," he said in an X post.
Altman also announced that ChatGPT will temporarily introduce rate limits for Ghibli photos “while we work on making it more efficient." He further said that free ChatGPT users will also get three generations per day soon.
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