ChatGPT Experiencing Outage

[bgillander]

Ha! This comes closest to how Venice treated me: "Thank you for your feedback! I'll be sure to keep it in mind!" <- your criticism is completely irrelevant if not flat out wrong and you know less on the topic than the back end of a donkey, but I have to pretend like I at least considered your opinion.

Yeah, I read its conversation as "Geez, what do you want? I'm just trying to act like I care, just like a normal human" and it actually did pretty much nail the indifference I have felt from most people that spout BS, those times I actually bothered to try to call them out.

So I'm thinking it is sounding scarily human!

 

[Maxis]

Venice.ai is alive and kicking. Definitely worth to take a look as an alternative.

Looks good and Oh it's cheep!

The speed of Llama 3.3 70B seems to be same as with 4o when generating code. It is a really good "second opinion" for the code chatgpt gives. Seems that it does the same as 4o stopping writing the code after a while.

For my test code, it couldn't do it workable as chatgpt did (on pro).

Overall, it has potential.

 

[svish]

Did not experience any issue when I was trying with Apple Intelligence/Siri earlier today. Anyway hoping for a complete fix soon.

 

[Skyscraperfan]

I was pretty much screwed yesterday. I had some very specific questions about CSS formatting and had to google it. Google is very good, if you are looking for hotels in Paris or so, but for specific questions I only use ChatGPT.

 

[johannnn]

I had some very specific questions about CSS formatting and had to google it

Claude beats or almost beats ChatGPT on those kind of questions.

 

[matsan]

 

[Skyscraperfan]

Claude beats or almost beats ChatGPT on those kind of questions.

Thanks, I will take a look at it. I noticed that with coding or markup ChatGPT often comes up with solutions that work, but are not very elegant.

 

[Bungobungo]

Eagerly awaiting the bursting of the AI bubble, and the subsequent floundering of all the companies that have gone full tilt into trying to sell it to us. AI computing is akin to the Media PC craze of the early-mid 00s.

 

[Earendil]

Oh dear, how sad, never mind


This is the problem if you rely on these things, when they go belly uyp, you are stuffed.

That narrative is not part of the story. That narrative only exists in your head.

This is a not uncommon tech outage, reported by a news and rumor site, on a feature some people use. End of narrative.

 

[Ted_Appleseed]

It's taking a break

 

[awisdom]

No. According to FOX, CNN, BBC and Reuters it was down for 100% of users globally. Not “some users”.

 

[SBlue1]

AI is the biggest flop in History and it’s also extremely dangerous for many other reasons as well. I think software stability for iOS is the only thing that matters right now. iOS 18 has been an extreme disaster stability & performance wise.

Yeah, no one need this black magic. I just hope the internet will catch on properly someday.

 

[SBlue1]

What’s your plan when the email says something very different than you expected and you don’t catch it before sending?

What's your plan when you write something and autocorrect changes a word, or you write something and spell it wrong, and you don't catch it before sending?

 

[SBlue1]

Always wondered - if you cannot be bothered to take the time to write something out, why should the other party be bothered to read it?

They won't read it, they ask chatGPT to summarize all the long emails

 

[CarAnalogy]

Always wondered - if you cannot be bothered to take the time to write something out, why should the other party be bothered to read it?

Don’t worry, they won’t. The AI will also read it.

Makes me wonder how many layers we can abstract away from reality until we hit bedrock.

 

[goldmac2006]

With all the hype I would have thought it predicted this to happen.

Also, outage or not, the Apple Intelligence still does not work.

Same here it did not work all of yesterday ⚔️ writing tools compose with ChatGPT just times out.

 

[Ad47uk]

That narrative is not part of the story. That narrative only exists in your head.

This is a not uncommon tech outage, reported by a news and rumor site, on a feature some people use. End of narrative.

The problem is when we do get tech outage, we are stuffed. The main problem is these days is that we rely so much on third party online services to keep things running. Years ago, come to think of it, not that many years ago, anyway, when i was younger, breakdowns used to be local, so easy to fix or at least try and sort out.
Take a store these days, even a small store, normally rely on some online service, take a payment card terminal, with more people being pushed to be cashless, if the terminal goes belly up, most people are stuffed. i normally carry cash.

So the same with this Ai rubbish, if you rely on it as some companies are starting to, including the one i work for, and it goes belly up, what do you do?
I have a lot of smart home stuff here, but I don't rely on it, I normally have some sort of back up, the only thing is the thermostat, but that will work in local mode if it goes off line.

 

[Ad47uk]

Eagerly awaiting the bursting of the AI bubble, and the subsequent floundering of all the companies that have gone full tilt into trying to sell it to us. AI computing is akin to the Media PC craze of the early-mid 00s.

umm, is it going to burst? It might slowly deflate to a certain extent, but it’s here now and it’s here to stay. The thing is, it’ll be pushed, just like other things are pushed onto us, like cashless payments.

 

[name99]

"issue caused by an upstream provider."

Which is the upstream provider?
Azure is the obvious answer, but Azure as a whole did not seem to have a problem yesterday. Does OpenAI have a private Azure warehouse disconnected from the rest of the system?

 

[the-bigwig]

Love Chat GPT. I use it all the time for emails to send out to all members of the various business segments. Put down my thoughts in an un-orderly and direct fashion and it spits out perfection to send out.

Wrote a perfect Christmas email thanking everyone in seconds

And the funniest thing is, some people, me included, exactly know that you "wrote" an email with a ChatGPT. NOT you, an app. Its NOT the position i would like to be in...

 

[WarmWinterHat]

And the funniest thing is, some people, me included, exactly know that you "wrote" an email with a ChatGPT. NOT you, an app. Its NOT the position i would like to be in...

Agreed, they are very easy to pick out.. I always thought it was odd how one can be so bad writing the language they speak.

I'm not an anti-social illiterate, so I have no problem writing emails...but hey, maybe that's unusual.

 

[Ad47uk]

Agreed, they are very easy to pick out.. I always thought it was odd how one can be so bad writing the language they speak.

I'm not an anti-social illiterate, so I have no problem writing emails...but hey, maybe that's unusual.

It could be useful to rewrite or change the tone, I have had a muck around with it, it is okay for that, well, I have had a muck around with Apple Intelligence, not ChatGPT, I will not touch that.

There are some people who may need a bit of help.

 

[TechnoTiger3000]

OpenAI is not ready for mainstream at all, I still have no idea why Apple is partnering with them, refuse to use that crap.

You need to know what to use it for.

 

[Maxis]

Apple’s problem is a poor user experience when it comes to its own software these days. For instance, Screen Time. Oh boy, it is poorly designed in terms of both logic and functionality. If I want to block an app entirely, there’s no way—you just can’t do it. The problem is that they tend to do things in a half-hearted way. Their approach to controlling what you can or can’t do within the ecosystem heavily limits the user experience.

As for Siri and AI, relying on a company or foundation without ensuring its viability is simply bad corporate thinking. Of course, you should deploy AI solutions on your own servers, leverage the advancements OpenAI provides, and focus on keeping your customers happier.

 

[Earendil]

umm, is it going to burst? It might slowly deflate to a certain extent, but it’s here now and it’s here to stay. The thing is, it’ll be pushed, just like other things are pushed onto us, like cashless payments.

Is cashless payments being pushed, or are cash users such an insignificant minority that businesses have no significant reason to support them? I occasionally carry cash and use it, but more and more it feels like people complaining that their store doesn’t accept gold.

Agreed, they are very easy to pick out.. I always thought it was odd how one can be so bad writing the language they speak.

I'm not an anti-social illiterate, so I have no problem writing emails...but hey, maybe that's unusual.

Please tell me “So bad writing” is an intentional joke

The problem is when we do get tech outage, we are stuffed. The main problem is these days is that we rely so much on third party online services to keep things running. Years ago, come to think of it, not that many years ago, anyway, when i was younger, breakdowns used to be local, so easy to fix or at least try and sort out.

Many years ago my bank had an outage. I was unable to get cash. I was stuffed because I had no other payment option. Now I have a few. My small town grocery store lost power, and had to close. I was stuffed. Now I can buy dog and human food online and have it delivered quickly and inexpensively. Once lost the landline to my home before cell phones. The nearest pay phone was 20 minutes away. I was stuffed. Now there are multiple options and carriers (and satellite!) within a stones throw of me in case of an emergency.

Are things more intertwined today than 100 years ago? Absolutely!
But people tend to forget how limited the alternatives (if there was one) even were in a lot of areas.

Corporations diving headlong into half baked ideas to save a buck is, I’d argue, a distinctly different problem (and not all that new). Hopefully those companies for which it doesn’t pan out are appropriately punished financially.

But maybe I’m a Luddite? I didn’t notice ChatGPT going down. Can someone give me an example of a societal mission critical ability that a bunch of people lost access to with this outage? Or was this even less important than Netflix being down for an hour?