News Summary

OpenAI has announced a delay in the rollout of its new image generation feature, Images in ChatGPT, for users on its free subscription tier. This decision comes as a result of unexpectedly high demand for the feature, which was released on a limited basis earlier this week. CEO Sam Altman stated that the delay is necessary to ensure system stability and performance before making it widely available to free users. The feature uses OpenAI’s reasoning model, GPT-4o, to allow users to create images directly within the ChatGPT app. While the feature remains unavailable to free users, there are plans to implement a limit similar to DALL-E’s three-image limit for free-tier users upon release. The decision also addresses concerns about misuse, with a rigid safewall in place to prevent the creation of deepfakes and copyrighted material.