OpenAI launched ChatGPT on November 30, 2022.

Within 5 days, ChatGPT had amassed over 1 million users.

It became one of the fastest-growing consumer applications in history, reaching 100 million users by January 2023.

ChatGPT had gone mainstream.

AI-generated art was trending as well, with tools like Midjourney, DALL·E, and Bard shaping a new kind of creative era.

But in the middle of all that hype, something happened that was far more important to creators, It's value.