India, March 29 -- While almost everyone on the internet has hopped on the trend of generating Studio-Ghibli inspired images within a matter of just a few prompts, the trend has taken a toll on OpenAI's graphic processing units (GPUs).

Soon after the frenzy over the anime-style image generation took over, OpenAI's CEO Sam Altman on Thursday took to his social media and said that their GPUs are "melting" because of it.

"It's super fun seeing people love images in ChatGPT. but our GPUs are melting. we are going to temporarily introduce some rate limits while we work on making it more efficient. hopefully won't be long! ChatGPT free tier will get 3 generations per day soon," Sam Altman said in a post on X (formerly Twitter).

Sam Altman's ...