- The generation of OpenAi Sora videos is not yet available for new accounts
- The restrictions follow a week of regular interruptions that affect all chatgpt users
- Operai says that he is currently “experiencing heavy traffic”
Chatgpt is having an excellent and terrible beginning of the month, depending on who asked him. While Operai is excited about the popularity of the new characteristics such as their new generation of native images, the subscribers of Chatgpt Plus are increasingly frustrated with restrictions and irregular performance caused by the new wave of chatbot popularity, and I am among them.
Last week, Chatgpt had one in his worst periods for interruptions. Although mostly short -term problems, the problems consistent (usually from 9 am et / 2pm bst) led to an understandable reinforcement of subscribers who saw the doors for the new generation of native images of chatgpt lit to hordes of free users.
While I write, Openai’s status page says again that the company is “experiencing problems” and Downetector shows small spikes in the reports, although nothing on the scale of last week, fortunately.
The large scale of last week’s increase was revealed by Coo Brad Lightcap in X (previously Twitter), who said that “more than 130 million users have generated images of more than 700 m+ (!) Since last Tuesday.”
He added that “we appreciate his patience when trying to serve everyone,” which was a slightly more comprehensive shot compared to the more de facto statement of CEO Sam Altman that “he must expect the new Openai launches to be delayed, break, and that the service is sometimes slow as we deal with the capacity challenges.” In other words, I deal with that because we are putting our foot in the gas.
Very crazy first week for images in ChatgPPT: More than 130 million users have generated images of 700m+ (!) Since last Tuesday, the India is now our fastest growing chatpt market 💪🇮🇳 The range of visual creativity has been extremely inspiring its patience while trying to serve …April 3, 2025
But although minor interruptions are understandable, the less obvious impacts of the rapid OpenAi escalation this month are causing more frustration. Something that has not made it very clear, apart from the help items, is that the generation of Operai Sora videos is not yet available for new accounts for a week since when it was “temporarily deactivated.”
Several people have registered in Chatgpt Plus, some even for their professional level of $ 200 per month, without realizing that the function is not available. Nor does it only affect the new subscribers, if (like me) you are an existing subscriber that Sora has not yet used, you can not use it for videos (only images, like the previous one).
Openai’s explanation in its help pages is that it is currently “experiencing heavy traffic” and that the generation of Sora videos is not “temporarily” available. But it is unfortunate that Sora’s key pages, such as what is for prices, do not mention these limitations. I asked Openai for an update on when this restriction can be lifted and I will update this story if I receive backward.
The chatgpt equilibrium act
I just went through the list of what we are planning to launch in the coming months. So very incredible things!April 5, 2025
While these chatgpt problems are still relatively lower in the great scheme of what it can still do, the frustration of paying users is not relieved by the noises that come from the main brasss of Openai, which are constantly falling on how many users are melting their GPU and the new features that will probably worsen their capacity problems soon.
During the weekend, Sam Altman enthusiastically published “the list of what we planned to launch in the coming months.” Well, Chatgpt subscribers hope that the list will be overcome by the new GPU capacity and server that can more reliably handle their influx of new users, and also deliver their complete set of announced features.
At the risk of sounding like a passenger from a spoiled airline complaining about the lack of free peanuts during the miracle of the transatlantic flight, Operai needs to monitor his subscribers who pay, even while keeping the other in the growth of his global user base.
After all, the IA competition is hot, and Google Gemini is being advanced in some areas, while Depseek and Manus AI offer increasingly tempting alternatives for some tasks. That explains why Openai has thrown from the shackles and recently modified his rules book to expand his appeal. But Chatgpt subscribers will expect this expansion not to go at the expense of the quality of the experience that made them enroll in the first place.
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