India, March 30 -- OpenAI's ChatGPT was down for several users across the world, amid users using the chatbot to create Studio Ghibli-styled animated avatars.DownDetector, a website that tracks outages, witnessed 229 complaints by users about OpenAI. About 59 per cent of users lodged complaints related to ChatGPT.OpenAI released its most advanced image generator through an update on Chat GPT-4o, allowing users to generate images in Miyazaki's hand-drawn animation style that featured in Oscar winning films such as "Spirited Away" and "The Boy and the Heron".

While OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman acknowledged the craze for Ghibli style images, he revealed that the "GPUs are melting".

"It's super fun seeing people love images in chatgpt....