People are Selling ChatGPT Plus Accounts Amid OpenAI’s New Sign-up Halt
Nov. 15, 2023OpenAI Pauses New Sign-ups for ChatGPT Plus
Right after DevDay, OpenAI’s first developer conference, the company faced an intenseDDoS attack, which led to the outage of ChatGPT and its APIs for more than a day. During DevDay, OpenAI announcedGPTs— acustom version of ChatGPTthat users can create for their specific purpose or task. The Microsoft-backed company was finally able to recover its services after mitigating the attack.
But now, Sam Altman, the CEO of OpenAI, announced on X (formerly Twitter) that the company ispausing new sign-upsfor ChatGPT Plus. As you can infer from the tweet, the decision has been taken to ensure a smooth experience for new users. Altman says, “the surge in usage post devday hasexceeded our capacity…” referring to a huge influx of users signing up for ChatGPT Plus to get access to all the new features.
During DevDay, OpenAI madeseveral key announcements, including a new and improved GPT-4 Turbo model, a unified ChatGPT experience, GPTs, APIs for Dall -E 3, GPT-4V, a new Whisper V3 model, and much more. This has piqued the interest of users who were still on the fence about whether to get the premium plan or not.
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