ChatGPT's Image Generator: Turning the Internet into a Digital Coloring Book Since Last Week

In a shocking turn of events that absolutely no one saw coming, OpenAI has announced that their ChatGPT users have generated over 700 million images since last week. That's right, folks. In the time it takes you to decide what to watch on Netflix, humanity has collectively outsourced its creativity to an AI, producing enough digital art to wallpaper the moon. Twice.

Brad Lightcap, OpenAI's official 'We Told You So' spokesperson, revealed these numbers with a straight face, presumably while sipping from a mug that says 'I Paused the Robot Apocalypse for This.' According to Lightcap, over 130 million users have been frantically typing prompts like 'a cat wearing a tutu on Mars' into ChatGPT, because clearly, that's what the internet was missing.

The upgraded image generator, launched on March 25, has become one of OpenAI's most popular features, proving once and for all that humanity's greatest love language is memes. 'We appreciate...' Lightcap started to say, before being interrupted by another user generating an image of Shakespeare riding a skateboard.

Here's a quick breakdown of what these 700 million images likely consist of:

• 500 million variations of 'what if my dog was a CEO'
• 150 million attempts to make Abraham Lincoln look 'cool'
• 49 million depictions of 'the future as envisioned by someone who just watched Blade Runner for the first time'
• And, inexplicably, 1 million images of toast with faces

Experts predict that at this rate, by next week, ChatGPT will have generated enough images to form its own NFT collection, which will ironically be worth more than the GDP of a small country. Meanwhile, actual artists are somewhere crying into their sketchpads, wondering if they should just switch careers to prompt engineering.

So, what's next for OpenAI's image generator? Rumor has it they're working on a feature that automatically adds a deep philosophical caption to every image, because nothing says 'art' like a picture of a banana with the words 'existential dread' written in Comic Sans.