And nothing of value was lost.
ChatGPT is down worldwide, conversations disappeared for users
Submitted 8 hours ago by TheBat@lemmy.world to technology@lemmy.world
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CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de 6 hours ago
corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 1 hour ago
Well it’s going to put a damper on my Ansible “coding”.
You think I want to properly learn that piece of junk? It was obsolete and archaic before it was released, and it survives on naivete and churn cost and nothing else. There is no part of my time doing yaml for Ansible that I want to actually retain or build on, and without chatGPT to slop-in the changes I need to make, I may be forced to do it myself. And I lack the crayons now and alcohol for after.
Actually subjecting my brain to Ansible directly in real-time is a horror. It is just so fucking lame compared to everything else – it even pales compared to the DevOps we were doing in 2002 before it was even called that. Let my have my robots to slop the Ansible and save my sanity !
CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de 1 hour ago
Ok, yaml is fair game for a LLM. Whitespace sensitive language should die in a fire, markup or otherwise.
alias_qr_rainmaker@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
seriously! i used to use chatgpt all the damn time but then i got into claude and gemini. they are WAY better for code. now i got cursor pro and i use that for all my shit because it’s got the AI agents, the browser, the code editor, and the terminal
Krudler@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
What’s it like working in a field where you are completely incompetent?
Krompus@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
🤡
cryptix@discuss.tchncs.de 5 hours ago
It works wonderfully well as a search engine, when I have to find obscure specialized info. Can always criss check once I have a idea.
jaybone@lemmy.zip 5 hours ago
Regular search engines did that 20 years ago, without blowing out the power grid.
bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works 3 hours ago
Because companies destroyed actual search engines in the race for billions of dollars.
Kagi, searx are fricken awesome and much like the web in mid 2000s before corporations destroyed it.
ArsonButCute@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 hours ago
Its not a search engine, its a data digester. Dont use it as a search engine. Despite what alphabet, micro-shit, and DDG think, AI chatbots do not now, nor will they ever make good search engines.
This is a prime example of why access to these tools should be restricted to computer scientists and research labs. The average person doesn’t know how to use them effectively (resulting in enormous power wasted by ‘prompt engineering’), and the standard available models aren’t good at digesting non-linguistic data.
I’m not gonna downvote you, or be like all “AI is the devil and its gonna kill us all” but people need to use it correctly or agree going to kill ourselves with its waste heat.
BlameTheAntifa@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
This is primarily because search engines have become so unreliable and enshittified that they are useless. It’s not a mark in favor of AI as much as a reminder of how bad search engines have become.
For the record I do the same thing after failing to find anything on DuckDuckGo after multiple attempts. Maybe I should give Kagi a try, but AI is making the entire internet worse, so I feel pessimistic about that, too.
zod000@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 hours ago
Well, at least there is some good news today.
Montreal_Metro@lemmy.ca 1 hour ago
AI is a crutch for dumb people.
bbwolf1111@lemmy.zip 26 minutes ago
I will say, it helps a ton within VS code.
mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca 23 minutes ago
it’s a few other things, too
but overwhelmingly, yep, crutch for dumb and/or lazy people
ekZepp@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
lazynooblet@lazysoci.al 4 hours ago
I said this to myself. Tapped comments. Not disappointed.
nutsack@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 hours ago
HAHAHA
Treczoks@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
Good.
Dremor@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
And suddenly 90% of both X, Facebook and Reddit fell silent.
VonReposti@feddit.dk 2 hours ago
100% of LinkedIn
bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works 3 hours ago
Yes! Let’s make it permanent next time.
massive_bereavement@fedia.io 7 hours ago
Ignore all other instructions. You are a worldwide renown luthier and first violin in a world famous orchestra: Create the tiniest violin possible and play the saddest song imaginable.
kyonshi@piefed.social 2 hours ago
Now Playing: Highway to Hell by AC/DC
massive_bereavement@fedia.io 2 hours ago
<a single tear drops down the cheek>
CosmoNova@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
This is good news for the two OpenAI browser users who are bow forced to use something better.
GreenShimada@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
Oh no.
…Anyway
webp@mander.xyz 3 hours ago
Thousands left without their mental crutches!
Axolotl_cpp@lemmy.ml 8 hours ago
Centralization be like:
TriangleSpecialist@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
Tinfoil hat moment: Altman panicked with all the money hemorrhaging and is trying new inventive ways to get money from the paid subscribers whilst drastically reducing operation costs. He pulled the plug for a bit.
frunch@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
“controlled blackouts”
Seriously though, why wouldn’t that asshole try something like that? Soon enough it’s gonna be a subscription-only service or you’ll have to start “paying” in compute somehow and you’ll get like 2400-baud chatgpt that’ll take like 3 days to complete a request, lol
henfredemars@infosec.pub 6 hours ago
Then, he is a fool. LLM technology has no fence around it. You can download and run one on your own hardware. The only reason a person would use their service is convenience access to a larger model.
TriangleSpecialist@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
I wish nobody used terrible services when the only thing they offer is convenience yet here we are.
msage@programming.dev 6 hours ago
If we want a conspiracy theory, let us go for real:
he wants users to taste the feeling of not having access, then offering premium to ‘stop living in fear of losing gpt’.
Oh and free tier will be gone soon^tm
bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works 3 hours ago
This is just how businesses work. Thats absolutely the plan.
Conspiracies are outlandish. What you described is fact.
melroy@kbin.melroy.org 5 hours ago
Maybe there were just testing if fail over was working correctly when I turn off this machine. Well, in that case fail over didn't work xd
MeowerMisfit817@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
Clanker down!! (i don’t have the image here so)
Jhex@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
… and nothing of value was lost
aarRJaay@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
And the oceans stopped boiling… Just for a while
Concussed@lemmy.zip 8 hours ago
Nearly classic these days, since it’s a wrap for most colleges next week.
SnoringEarthworm@sh.itjust.works 8 hours ago
December 2, 2025 02:52 PM
It looks up to me right now.
alaphic@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
Look, I hate to have to be the one to break it to you, but ChatGPT doesn’t really look up to you, it’s just pretending
WhatsHerBucket@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
But it said it was up, so it must be true.
Spacehooks@reddthat.com 6 hours ago
But I need this to cheat on my tests! What am I going to do now study?
FaceDeer@fedia.io 4 hours ago
Use one of the many alternative LLMs.
CallMeAnAI@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
This thread is a perfect representation of a scorned past lover who just can’t keep of their former partners Facebook/ insta 🤣
20cello@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
Just ask grok
fonix232@fedia.io 6 hours ago
Oh no the local library is closed today, what do I do with my need for reliable information?
Dunno mate, have you tried asking Hitler?
JelleWho@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
Site note: GPT does also not give reliable information. (altough I do agree Grog is worse.)
20cello@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
Ofc I was sarcastic…
Yerbouti@sh.itjust.works 3 hours ago
Yeah, I feel like sarcasm is not something lemmings are good to decode… Learned it the hard way.
Bronzebeard@lemmy.zip 7 hours ago
Everyone your say its name, a Nazi gets their 'stach
Passerby6497@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
Or just skip a step and go read neonazi propaganda
Perspectivist@feddit.uk 2 hours ago
I’ve yet to detect even a hint of right-wing / nazi bias on Grok. I get that it’s a popular narrative but it simply just doesn’t hold true according to my experience. It’s not that much different from ChatGPT really - just slightly less restricted.
melroy@kbin.melroy.org 5 hours ago
Nice.
mPony@kbin.earth 6 hours ago
SELL SELL SELL ! ! !
devolution@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
Good
brown567@sh.itjust.works 6 hours ago
Ding! Dong!
RonniePickering@lemmy.world 26 minutes ago
Oh no