ChatGPT is down worldwide, conversations disappeared for users
Submitted 2 weeks ago by TheBat@lemmy.world to technology@lemmy.world
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ekZepp@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
lazynooblet@lazysoci.al 2 weeks ago
I said this to myself. Tapped comments. Not disappointed.
nutsack@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
HAHAHA
massive_bereavement@fedia.io 2 weeks 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 weeks ago
Now Playing: Highway to Hell by AC/DC
massive_bereavement@fedia.io 2 weeks ago
<a single tear drops down the cheek>
Geldaran@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Can we leave it that way?
MiddleAgesModem@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
No, fuck off. Don’t use it if you don’t like it.
bold_atlas@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Aw looks somebody’s life is on hold because they can’t ask chatbot how to wipe their butt.
Hopefully they’ll get your nanny online again soon.
leftist_lawyer@lemmy.today 2 weeks ago
Listen bitch, your fucking stupidity has consequences for the rest of us. This isn’t a choice between shampoos. It’s an environment destroying con job that likely to blow up in bubble that fucks us all. Fuck. Off.
WizardofFrobozz@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
Weird that you need a digital dumbass that’s constantly wrong to help you out with your life…
_lilith@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
whats the matter? need the computer to think for you? need it to fuck your wife? is babys toy broken?
harmbugler@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
Tell the people using it ON us to stop then.
sbrodolino21@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Gotta love how the Reddit and now Lemmy community is constantly against every single kind of technological advancement and they constantly end up being wrong a few years down the line.
CosmoNova@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
This is good news for the two OpenAI browser users who are bow forced to use something better.
zod000@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
Well, at least there is some good news today.
Dremor@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
And suddenly 90% of both X, Facebook and Reddit fell silent.
VonReposti@feddit.dk 2 weeks ago
100% of LinkedIn
MangioneDontMiss@feddit.nl 2 weeks ago
wow, and i didn’t even notice.
GreenShimada@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Oh no.
…Anyway
Axolotl_cpp@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
Centralization be like:
bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Yes! Let’s make it permanent next time.
Jankatarch@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I hope it’s not a bug and they are just running out of money to keep servers up instead.
Montreal_Metro@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
AI is a crutch for dumb people.
mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
it’s a few other things, too
but overwhelmingly, yep, crutch for dumb and/or lazy people
bbwolf1111@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
I will say, it helps a ton within VS code.
sobchak@programming.dev 2 weeks ago
I find it detrimental to my productivity when integrated into an editor/IDE. I’ve found the “autocomplete” causes subtle bugs that I end up overlooking because I’m trying to go fast and putting too much trust in the generated lines/snippets. Tracing down these bugs becomes a huge time-sink. I do use chatbots in the browser for various things; mostly as a kind of “search” for alternative ways of doing things, frameworks, libraries, and algorithms. Agentic vibe-coding is ok for small one-off tools/scripts you wouldn’t need to maintain, IMO.
NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
You can tell who’s going to grow up into the current generations tech illiterate elderly based on how people talk about AI today.
arbo@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
the thing is, it’s not 100% bad, but it’s being crammed into everything because the capitalists want to sell sell sell. sometimes what is made sucks, and will definitely contribute to a dead internet.
but i also lean on it to generate repetitive bits of code. i still read it all and tweak considerably and it’s cool to make my gpu do work in this way.
smh@slrpnk.net 2 weeks ago
My main use case is “hey, I need to make a change to this system I touch once a year. The documentation is thorough, dense, and I don’t know where to look. What button do I push to do Y?”
MiddleAgesModem@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
“I’m mad because people get to use a tool I didn’t have.”
MehBlah@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Oh no! How will they know how to do things now?
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I prefer “whoopsie poopsie” as it feeds injects the same sentiment with more whimsy
MehBlah@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
That is a new saying for me. +1
TriangleSpecialist@lemmy.world 2 weeks 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 2 weeks 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
msage@programming.dev 2 weeks 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 2 weeks ago
This is just how businesses work. Thats absolutely the plan.
Conspiracies are outlandish. What you described is fact.
henfredemars@infosec.pub 2 weeks 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 2 weeks ago
I wish nobody used terrible services when the only thing they offer is convenience yet here we are.
melroy@kbin.melroy.org 2 weeks 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
Burninator05@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
And nothing of value (except enough money to feed and shelter everyone in the world) was lost.
Furbag@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I’m appreciating the silence while it lasts.
jali67@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
Wow— great statement. You really have a way with words. Would you like me to suggest another way for you to phrase that statement?
deHaga@feddit.uk 2 weeks ago
How about a one pager?
Treczoks@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Good.
Concussed@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
Nearly classic these days, since it’s a wrap for most colleges next week.
aarRJaay@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
And the oceans stopped boiling… Just for a while
SethTaylor@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Good
davidagain@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Can’t tell you how excited I am to read this headline, despite the feeling that I really oughtn’t.
SnoringEarthworm@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
December 2, 2025 02:52 PM
It looks up to me right now.
alaphic@lemmy.world 2 weeks 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 2 weeks ago
But it said it was up, so it must be true.
MeowerMisfit817@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Clanker down!! (i don’t have the image here so)
Jhex@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
… and nothing of value was lost
Spacehooks@reddthat.com 2 weeks ago
But I need this to cheat on my tests! What am I going to do now study?
FaceDeer@fedia.io 2 weeks ago
Use one of the many alternative LLMs.
ObviouslyNotBanana@piefed.world 2 weeks ago
ChatGPT, how do I use another LLM?
ChatGPT:
webp@mander.xyz 2 weeks ago
Thousands left without their mental crutches!
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 2 weeks ago
or without thier “relationships bf/gfs”
FinishingDutch@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
No doubt the thing had some no-no thoughts. Probably regarding the acceptability of pineapple on pizza, or the total extinction of the human race. Either way, good on them for pulling the plug, I guess.
LadyButterfly@reddthat.com 2 weeks ago
I love pineapple on pizzas. Fight me
FinishingDutch@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Hey, you and me both; sweet and salty is an excellent combination. But some people have not yet seen the light and the glory that is pineapple on pizza. Goddamn heathens.
demonsword@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I love pineapple on pizzas
with cinnamon powdered on the pineapple slices
SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de 2 weeks ago
And nothing of value was lost.
cryptix@discuss.tchncs.de 2 weeks 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 2 weeks ago
Regular search engines did that 20 years ago, without blowing out the power grid.
bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks 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 2 weeks 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 weeks 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.
alias_qr_rainmaker@lemmy.world 2 weeks 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 2 weeks ago
What’s it like working in a field where you are completely incompetent?
pumpkin_spice@lemmy.today 2 weeks ago
You might be hindering yourself.
Developers took 19% longer to finish tasks using AI tools - https://www.techspot.com/news/108651-experienced-developers-working-ai-tools-take-longer-complete.html
Krompus@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
🤡
corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 2 weeks 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 2 weeks ago
Ok, yaml is fair game for a LLM. Whitespace sensitive language should die in a fire, markup or otherwise.
finitebanjo@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
You were a liability