Hanlon's razor: (A) An unimaginably large coordination to attack the most computing power on earth temporarily out of unspecified malice (B) It's finals week and a cascading tidal wave of millions of kids are texting each other that chatgpt is down and they need an alternative
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Folks, Claude, ChatGPT, and perplexity all down.-
The singularity is here.-
A coordinated DDoS effort against popular AI front-ends seems like the most likely explanation.
Hanlon's razor: (A) An unimaginably large coordination to attack the most computing power on earth temporarily out of unspecified malice (B) It's finals week and a cascading tidal wave of millions of kids are texting each other that chatgpt is down and they need an alternative
perhaps, but it doesn't offer an explanation for why chatgpt.com is down for this long.
Because they also had an incident overnight, and the resolution caused some cascading issues?
https://status.openai.com/incidents/rs49lmsh6xxw
Or they started querying each other. :)
2024-06-04 12:32 - Perplexity enabled a feature that double-checks responses with Claude
2024-06-04 13:51 - ChatGPT enabled a feature that double-checks responses with Perplexity
2024-06-04 15:04 - Claude enabled a feature that double-checks responses with ChatGPT
2024-06-04 17:42 - The internet ran out of bandwidth as LLMs starts going around in infinitive loops, double-checking double-checked answers
Indeed. But ...
... by whom?
(Cue spooky music)
The api call is coming from inside the server!
Not to buzzkill the humor, but Gemini never went down. Those other 3 did though.