OpenAI's Servers Crying for Mercy: Sam Altman Announces Delays as ChatGPT Users Flood In

In a shocking turn of events that absolutely nobody saw coming, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has announced that the company's servers are currently more overwhelmed than a single toilet at a music festival. The culprit? Their latest image-generation tool in ChatGPT, which has proven to be as addictive as cat videos on the internet.

Altman took to X (formerly known as Twitter, for those of you still catching up) to deliver the bad news. "We are getting things under control," he said, in what we can only assume was a moment of pure optimism. "But you should expect new releases from OpenAI to be delayed, stuff to break, and for service to sometimes... well, just not work." Ah, the sweet sound of progress!

This announcement has left the tech world reeling. How could a company that literally makes artificial intelligence not foresee that people would love a tool that turns their wildest dreams into images? It's almost as if they didn't expect us to ask for "a cat wearing a tuxedo, riding a shark, on the moon" a million times a second.

Here's a quick rundown of what's happening at OpenAI HQ right now:

• Engineers are frantically trying to cool down servers that are hotter than a jalapeño in a sauna.
• The IT department has declared a state of emergency, with coffee supplies running dangerously low.
• Sam Altman is probably wondering why he didn't just stick to making toasters.

In related news, OpenAI has announced a new feature called "Patience Mode," where users can opt to receive their generated images sometime in the next decade. Early testers say it's "just like waiting for your dial-up internet to load a picture in the '90s."

So, if you're waiting for your next AI-generated masterpiece, just remember: good things come to those who wait. Or, in this case, to those who refresh their browser 500 times an hour.