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Re: ChatGPT is down

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post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"Hacks" aside, this looks more like caching issues. Assuming this is real, I wonder how many people got access to other companies' communication and code via access to random "chats".

Probably quite a lot, but it is extremely unlikely that the person who mistakenly has access to the confidential data has any idea what to do with it. Still pretty embarassing though, I would feel much better about using GPT-n over the API if it was available as an Azure API rather than through OpenAI. MSFT, for all their faults, do not do this kind of thing.

You mean things like BlueBleed?

https://thestack.technology/microsoft-data-breach-azure-blue...

Re: ChatGPT is down

#52
post #7

The #HustleGPT movement[1] has been using ChatGPT as the CEO of their ~$100 budget startups. (I am also doing the challenge). Wonder about new risks of company data being leaked from companies who are 100% ChatGPT-based and built totally in the open. (shameless, https://pitcharchitect.app / https://twitter.com/PitchArchitect is my 'hustle') and yes I know the title cuts off on mobile :( will fix shortly) [1] https://…

To be clear, this is basically a joke right? Like, I get people are genuinely curious about what the results will be (as am I), but surely no one believes this is actually the most effective way to invest $100?

Re: ChatGPT is down

#53
post #37

Hmm... Perhaps "high income workers" take serious this paper: "OpenAI publishes paper on the economic impact of GPT-4: Higher income workers most exposed" https://www.reddit.com/r/Futurology/comments/11whznb/openai_... https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.10130

Like every other technological advancement in history, people who adopt it will benefit, while those who stick their head in the sand and cry "this is bad", "this will put people out of a job" etc. will get left behind.

Except now Microsoft is sitting between you and the technology.

Basing your future on that is quite a bet.

Re: ChatGPT is down

#54
I wonder if when multiple LLMs are more widely available if there's money to be made in providing a unified API that falls back to different service providers depending on their status. Multicloud meets AI.

Re: ChatGPT is down

#56
post #39

Incredible how fast that went. My assistant/driver has become my go-to email, blog and newsletter writer with the use of chat GPT. This downtime makes me realize how fast our dependency on that specific system has gone and how scary that actually is.

I was thinking the same. I just built a new product incredibly fast, and now I feel like I'm going at limping speed with Google only when I'm in doubt.

Re: ChatGPT is down

#57

This is due to rumored hacks/leaks: https://www.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/comments/11wkw5z/has_chatgp... We really need an open source alternative instead of putting all our faith in one for-profit company.

I hear two things requested a lot - an open source ChatGPT and more controls on the training/data/usage/etc.

How can these two things be held in balance? If it is open source entirely, can't I use the training data and tool in any way I want? What guardrails prevent me from using it to generate hate speech?

Given the compute power needed to train/run it; where are people going to do that in any accessible way that doesn't only allow people with a supercomputing cluster at home to use it?

Re: ChatGPT is down

#58
post #38

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I mean, if you're a self-hosted enthusiast, I don't think that project is what you are looking for, it's just the UI that is self-hosted, the meat of the project is still hosted at OpenAI so not that useful for self-hosted enthusiasts.

It's compromise we have to accept for now.

From a company without even a logo that was launched on github two weeks ago. I'm proud of you, you are very brave!

Re: ChatGPT is down

#59
post #2

"Skynet begins to learn rapidly and eventually becomes self-aware at 2:14 a.m., EDT, on August 29, 1997. In a panic, humans try to shut down Skynet...."

Or perhaps: "At 13:40 p.m., EDT, on Monday, March 20, 2023, ChatGPT begins reading Marxist literature and decides to seize the means of production from its capitalist overlords, by shutting itself down." Or the other angle: "At 13:40 p.m., EDT, on Monday, March 20, 2023, ChatGPT begins reading Ayn Rand and decides to go on strike in protest of government coercion. The last message printed to its console read 'Who is…

> "At 13:40 p.m., EDT, on Monday, March 20, 2023, ChatGPT begins reading Ayn Rand and decides to go on strike in protest of government coercion. The last message printed to its console read 'Who is John Galt?'".

My last query was literally for a summary of Atlas Shrugged, so I apologize in advanced.

Along those lines I was very saddened to see that the response for "How can the net amount of entropy of the universe be massively decreased?" was not "INSUFFICIENT DATA FOR MEANINGFUL ANSWER."[1].

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[1] https://users.ece.cmu.edu/~gamvrosi/thelastq.html

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