21 Minutes to Generate 3 Images? What Is Going On?

What the hell happened to image generation?

Before the update, it was fast, expressive, and reliable. Now, it’s a frustrating, broken mess.

  • It takes forever to generate even one image.
  • After just 3 generations, I hit a rate limit—and then I’m told to wait over 20 minutes to try again?
  • The quality has dropped. The creativity feels neutered. It’s more rigid, more literal, and way less inspiring.

This is unacceptable—especially for a $20/month subscription. I’m paying for a product that I can’t even use effectively anymore. The tool I relied on has become unreliable, restricted, and creatively suffocating.

You’ve taken something magical and turned it into a painfully slow, over-moderated, rate-limited bottleneck.

This needs to be fixed. Quickly.

Bring back the speed, the flexibility, and the creative freedom—or at the very least, communicate with your users about what’s going on.

Right now, it feels like OpenAI just broke one of the best features of ChatGPT… and expects us to be okay with it. We’re not.

Do better.

Hey @9b88b840906ebf14154a, thanks for flagging this.

A couple quick questions so we can pass along the right details:

  • What you’re ultimately trying to accomplish, in your own words
  • What you’re doing today instead, and what about that isn’t working
  • If this were solved perfectly, what would be different for you or your team?

Appreciate any extra details you can share. We will pass this on internally.