If there was any doubt that the new capabilities and features that OpenAI unveiled at its first last week were compelling, the suspension of new ChatGPT Plus subscriptions should put them to rest.
“The surge in usage post devday has exceeded our capacity and we want to make sure everyone has a great experience,” said OpenAI CEO Sam Altman on Twitter on Wednesday morning. “We are pausing new ChatGPT Plus sign-ups for a bit.”
Altman said the company prioritized a smooth user experience, and that interested customers can sign up to be notified when they’ll be able to subscribe again.
we are pausing new ChatGPT Plus sign-ups for a bit 🙁
the surge in usage post devday has exceeded our capacity and we want to make sure everyone has a great experience.
you can still sign-up to be notified within the app when subs reopen.
— Sam Altman (@sama) November 15, 2023
Last Monday, Altman took the stage and announced several upgrades to its existing products, including the latest version of ChatGPT, GPT-4 Turbo, which introduced multimodal capabilities that allowed users to work with both text and images seamlessly.
The pause in signups comes a day after OpenAI updated its terms of service to switch arbitration agencies and to group its commercial services under overarching business plans. Users who don’t agree to the new terms are being told to delete their account before Dec. 14, 2023.
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Source: https://decrypt.co/206218/chatgpt-puts-paid-plan-signups-on-pause-as-systems-strain
