OpenAI advertises "unlimited" image generation in Pro. It is not unlimited. [D]

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A user criticizes OpenAI for misleadingly advertising 'unlimited' image generation in ChatGPT Pro, as they encountered rate limits after generating a few hundred images, and highlights the cost inefficiency compared to API usage.

Signed up for ChatGPT Pro for an image generation project. The pricing page says Pro comes with "unlimited and faster image creation" (chatgpt.com/pricing). A few hundred images in, I got rate limited. Reached out to support, and the response was: "Pro access remains subject to usage allowances." So the word "unlimited" is... well... a lie. If you need image gen for actual work, heads up: you'll hit a wall after a few hundred images and support won't tell you where the real limit is. Posting this so anyone considering pro for a similar project doesn't get caught off guard like I did. Regarding to any potential "that's a lot of images comment", if you look at (https://developers.openai.com/api/docs/guides/image-generation#calculating-costs) you can see that using the API you can generate images for $0.006. So if they were correctly and not falsely advertising this image generation feature I could have used those 100$ to generate roughly 16k images.
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