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It’s not just you: ChatGPT is down for many users right now. Here’s the latest on OpenAI’s confirmed outage.

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[–] Gsus4@mander.xyz 95 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)
[–] Boiglenoight@lemmy.world 67 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

That icon looks like a stylized asshole.

[–] mushroommunk@lemmy.today 39 points 3 weeks ago (5 children)

Go look at more AI company logos. Many of them look like buttholes for some reason.

Hank Green has a video on his channel where he ranks AI company logos based on how much they look like buttholes.

Butt it's not just AI companies - I ordered something from Walmart last year and I was looking at the box in my recycling, thinking the snowflake pattern was kinda cool... then I thought about that Hank Green vid and realized that the Walmart star kinda looks like a butthole too.

[–] wewbull@feddit.uk 3 points 3 weeks ago

It's like having masonic symbols featured to show loyalty, but it's Epstein symbolism.

[–] CosmoNova@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago

The reason is that‘s the place they‘re licking when visiting Washington or Florida.

[–] Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 weeks ago

Oh, we know the reason. It makes sense.

[–] floofloof@lemmy.ca 25 points 3 weeks ago

So does their CEO.

[–] AdamEatsAss@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] NachBarcelona@piefed.social 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] Tylerdurdon@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

It means the truth is out there, but up someone's cornhole. Keep searching my friend.

[–] tidderuuf@lemmy.world 48 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

First of many outages as they realize how much cash they are burning and can't stay afloat.

My company locked down our AI models to tech leads and chief engineers because the average user could save a lot more money by just using Google.

[–] TheFrirish@tarte.nuage-libre.fr 28 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 6 points 3 weeks ago

I've never seen this in motion....

[–] MadMadBunny@lemmy.ca 20 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)
[–] dusty_raven@discuss.online 6 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] k0e3@lemmy.ca 9 points 3 weeks ago

The factorial fiend strikes again.

[–] aeronmelon@lemmy.world 19 points 3 weeks ago
[–] Chippys_mittens@lemmy.world 17 points 3 weeks ago

Oh noooo, oh god, oh gee, what are we gonna do?

[–] Rhoeri@piefed.world 16 points 3 weeks ago

Good. Let’s hope it stays down.

[–] hperrin@lemmy.ca 15 points 3 weeks ago

Oh no! They’ll have to actually think!

[–] tordenflesk@lemmy.world 13 points 3 weeks ago

OH NO!, Anyway...

[–] mczolly@piefed.social 11 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

I know people who will be unable to get information now

[–] etchinghillside@reddthat.com 9 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (2 children)

This is news? Am I just jaded by Anthropic’s uptime?

edit: the attempted funny is that Anthropic is down so often it’s hardly news.

[–] Lembot_0006@programming.dev 3 points 3 weeks ago

Yes, news. We regularly see "Twitter is down", "CloudFlare is down!", "YouTube was down for 93 seconds! Humanity is in danger!". Why not chatGPT?

[–] panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 3 points 3 weeks ago

Anthropic was also down today.

And Google had internal issues they didn't publicly report.

[–] Bustedknuckles@lemmy.world 5 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

"it's not just you"? It's not even me. I wonder how many complaints there were - would be a good metric of actual usage

[–] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago

Kind of. As long as you understand that people like me exist.

I ordered a big mac from McDonalds one time. I got a chicken sandwich instead.

I was sitting inside. I could easily have went back to the counter and said something.

Instead, I just went with it. Guess I'm having a chicken sandwich today!

Now, that being said, I also don't use AI. So, I would have never noticed it being down. But hypothetically, if I tried to use AI, and it didn't work, I'd just do something else instead.

So it won't be the number of complaints = the number of users affected. But it does give you somewhat of a scale.

[–] tonytins@pawb.social 5 points 3 weeks ago

Oh, well...

[–] AstralPath@lemmy.ca 5 points 3 weeks ago

It's definitely not me. I don't use that shit for anything. I hope it stays down forever.

[–] melsaskca@lemmy.ca 4 points 3 weeks ago

And just like that world productivity slipped backwards about 500 years...or...wow, no one noticed.

[–] LifeLikeLady@lemmy.world 4 points 3 weeks ago

But how will Microslop spit out any code today? Oh well. Anyway.

[–] aceshigh@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago

There’s another outage? There was one 8 or so hours ago.

[–] db2@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago

tf you mean "it's not just me" never have never will. Entirely local I'm good with, data mines run by racist pedophiles is a pretty easy nope for me. Can you say the same?

[–] abcdqfr@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago

ITT: intellectuals slinging shit like apes for their own amusement, or something.

[–] fallaciousBasis@lemmy.world -5 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)
[–] Rhoeri@piefed.world 11 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

It’d be great if it didn’t though.

[–] fallaciousBasis@lemmy.world -1 points 3 weeks ago

Hey man I would totally agree with you, if it was 20-30 years ago and search engines actually gave relevant results instead of commercial SEO garbage. Which in my opinion is a hell of a lot worse than the worst AI slop...

[–] floofloof@lemmy.ca 1 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)
[–] fallaciousBasis@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago

I just prefer it to search engines these days. Chatgpt will give you good basic answers with direct links to citations.

Most search engines just produce endless commercial spam. I can instruct chatgpt to basically be Google scholar on steroids and get highly relevant academic results, which I then go read. "Based on highly regarded scientific literature like nature, please find me links regarding ...." Works great! In you need, "no summaries, no conjecture. I don't want your thoughts about this. I just want highly cited links/literature. Please act like a good search engine chat GPT." And it generally does pretty great, minimizing me having to wade through shit-tons of SEO garbage.

I'm not having much discussion with it, except for fun/novelty.