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Re: OpenAI Status: Multiple engines are down

#41

Slightly funny but also slightly concerning, they were also having service issues a few days ago that resulted in ChatGPT giving me answers to prompts I wasn’t submitting. I reproduced this 30 or so times just to see the different results and it was interesting, everything from answering questions about mental health to marketing tips, to a request to write a thesis over social media and it’s negative effects on our…

This is why Amazon begs employees not to leak corporate secrets to ChatGPT:

https://futurism.com/the-byte/amazon-begs-employees-chatgpt

Re: OpenAI Status: Multiple engines are down

#42

As an aside, I wonder when llm’s will be weaponized against authoritarian (China, etc) human censors, as they could be totally overwhelmed with content generation and be forced to censor all internet traffic…

I think they're mostly operating on a whitelist.

Re: OpenAI Status: Multiple engines are down

#43
post #4

With all of these outages, you have to wonder if it's a lack of skilled engineers on their part, or if they simply don't have enough GPUs to keep the lights on all the time.

The have first-class platform and systems engineers. Do you think one of the most desireable and well funded software shops in the world wouldn’t be able to get skilled engineers?

If they're that well funded, skilled engineers are more likely to be the bottleneck than compute availability.

Re: OpenAI Status: Multiple engines are down

#44

As an aside, I wonder when llm’s will be weaponized against authoritarian (China, etc) human censors, as they could be totally overwhelmed with content generation and be forced to censor all internet traffic…

Alternatively, their troll farms will work much more effectively than before. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State-sponsored_Internet_propa...

Re: OpenAI Status: Multiple engines are down

#45

As an aside, I wonder when llm’s will be weaponized against authoritarian (China, etc) human censors, as they could be totally overwhelmed with content generation and be forced to censor all internet traffic…

Do you mean that they would be flooded by outputs on public forums? Or rather that the weights could be passed around in a subversive way to encode forbidden communications? I think if it’s the former they could just pull the plug on a forum. Not sure it’s really conducive to the forum’s public longevity if it’s spammed by LLM outputs, anyhow.

Re: OpenAI Status: Multiple engines are down

#46

As an aside, I wonder when llm’s will be weaponized against authoritarian (China, etc) human censors, as they could be totally overwhelmed with content generation and be forced to censor all internet traffic…

I wonder when authoritarian censors will weaponize LLMs.

Re: OpenAI Status: Multiple engines are down

#47
To put this in perspective: the outage was 52 min. The total number of employees OpenAI have are 375. The launch date was just some months ago.

At Google, the Cloud SQL dashboard was unavailable for around 12 hours a couple of weeks ago if I read this correctly: https://status.cloud.google.com/incidents/xg2qrL1UuSJiPDZALJ... The total number of employees of Google are 156 500. Google Cloud was launched 2008.

So when people say scaling is hard... it's not a solved problem and you shouldn't be surprised when these things happen.

A solid theoretical foundation and more testing is better of course.

Re: OpenAI Status: Multiple engines are down

#48

Slightly funny but also slightly concerning, they were also having service issues a few days ago that resulted in ChatGPT giving me answers to prompts I wasn’t submitting. I reproduced this 30 or so times just to see the different results and it was interesting, everything from answering questions about mental health to marketing tips, to a request to write a thesis over social media and it’s negative effects on our…

This is why Amazon begs employees not to leak corporate secrets to ChatGPT: https://futurism.com/the-byte/amazon-begs-employees-chatgpt

I mean there’s a lot of reasons to not leak secrets to a third party, buggy AI or otherwise

Re: OpenAI Status: Multiple engines are down

#49
post #10

This is precisely why they should really open source their model so that anyone can download and run it on their own infrastructure. Just like google or others have done and one is free to run it on their own laptop (some even without a GPU) , on premise or on any cloud provider infrastructure. They can continue to provide a hosted service for their model but they should allow it to be downloaded just like BERT.

https://www.reddit.com/r/PygmalionAI/ is one. Mainly people are using it as an alternative to http://character.ai which people have said used to be incredible but has been slowly degrading in quality as it has grown more popular. The 6B parameter model, which is the only one that is even worth running according to many users, only runs on cards with 16gb of vram or Google Colab Cloud Service and people say it's not as good as character.ai.

There are other huge models like Bloom that are more general purpose, but they require greater than 24GB of ram which means multiple linked GPUs to even run them much less train them.

Thus, unlike stable diffusion, chatbots that run on common consumer GPUs are going to need some work to be competitive with commercial offerings.

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