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Elevated Errors on API and ChatGPT

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Re: Elevated Errors on API and ChatGPT

#11
I wonder why this product is so unreliable. Perhaps because they keep messing with it and tweaking it instead of having a stable software that isn't updated almost daily.

I like to use chatgpt for enhancing productivity for rote tasks but I keep finding I can't rely on it. Is there a reliable generative text AI out there?

Re: Elevated Errors on API and ChatGPT

#12
Another OpenAI outage. Just as frequent as GitHub outages. [0]

Before, I would have recommend [1] to contact the CEO of OpenAI for support. It turns out there is no CEO to contact this time until this chaos is over.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38237794

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38191468

Re: Elevated Errors on API and ChatGPT

#13
If this is related to the weekend’s events, it’s just sad. I subscribed a few weeks ago and chatgpt 4 is such a handy thing to have. They potentially broke up a great company and product for nothing.

I think it was Roon on Twitter who put it best: “wanton destruction of a beautiful thing”.

Re: Elevated Errors on API and ChatGPT

#14
post #9

Likely connected to the fact that they released voice chat for free users an hour ago. https://x.com/openai/status/1727065166188274145 Assuming these two things are related, if I may editorialize just a tiny bit, I am a little annoyed at how much their rollouts often disrupt service for paying customers. Paid users being impacted by free user rushes really sucks, but is understandable. API developers being impacted b…

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Re: Elevated Errors on API and ChatGPT

#16
As a paid ChatGPT user for many months now I’m glad they move so fast making the service better. I happily take that over a slowly improving but always reliable service. Let reliability come later. For now it’s great they move fast even at the cost of service disruption.

Re: Elevated Errors on API and ChatGPT

#17

I wonder why this product is so unreliable. Perhaps because they keep messing with it and tweaking it instead of having a stable software that isn't updated almost daily. I like to use chatgpt for enhancing productivity for rote tasks but I keep finding I can't rely on it. Is there a reliable generative text AI out there?

Like how FB and Google just update willy nilly and you're stuck with whatever you get no matter the workflow issues. Should be able to pick a version, even if it's a sliding window.

Re: Elevated Errors on API and ChatGPT

#19

I wonder why this product is so unreliable. Perhaps because they keep messing with it and tweaking it instead of having a stable software that isn't updated almost daily. I like to use chatgpt for enhancing productivity for rote tasks but I keep finding I can't rely on it. Is there a reliable generative text AI out there?

Probably because the system is new and they are still working through the bugs. When, for example, is the last time you noticed a Gmail outage? Nowadays almost never, but 10 year ago it happened multiple times a year. Similarly, GitHub outages are also becoming less long and less frequent.

Re: Elevated Errors on API and ChatGPT

#20

As a paid ChatGPT user for many months now I’m glad they move so fast making the service better. I happily take that over a slowly improving but always reliable service. Let reliability come later. For now it’s great they move fast even at the cost of service disruption.

As long as this is reasonably communicated to all who pay, I’m generally of the same mind.

It just takes a “this is a beta, there may be the occasional outage” banner.

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