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Re: Ask HN: Is ChatGPT down?

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Post by LeoPanthera »

transcriptase wrote: post #24
alex_young wrote: post #3

Seems that way. Status page says we’re wrong though. https://status.openai.com/

Wish I could find where someone at AWS described in great detail why their status page was so useless for so long. It basically needed so many approvals to change it (which was disincentivized by SLAs) that issues were usually resolved first. That’s setting aside when they hosted the status red/yellow/green indicator images on s3, so the surest sign that s3 was having issues was that the status indicators didn’t load…

"Step up to red alert."

"Sir, are you absolutely sure, it does mean changing the bulb."

https://youtu.be/jZn1fhMdrbQ

Re: Ask HN: Is ChatGPT down?

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Post by bobjordan »

Wow, I subscribed to pro-mode and have been using it like crazy since release to assist my firmware development. Extremely helpful. Now it's changed my workflow so much, I don't even want to work when it's down.

Re: Ask HN: Is ChatGPT down?

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Post by colinbartlett »

0xFEE1DEAD wrote: post #21

Looks like Azure is experiencing a major outage, but I cannot find anything about it. If you look at downdetector.com you'll notice reported outages from OpenAI, Microsoft 365, XBox Live, Walmart, the list goes on.

If nobody minds a plug: My own product, StatusGator, which was launched here on HackerNews 10 year ago, notifies IT teams about outages before they are acknowledged by official status pages.

- This OpenAI outage[1] we notified 4 minutes before they acknowledged.

- The last AWS outage[2], we notified 28 minutes before they acknowledged

- There is def an Azure outage[3] now yet they have still not updated their status page. We notified 35 minutes ago.

1. https://statusgator.com/services/openai

2. https://statusgator.com/blog/amazon-cognito-outage-december-...

3. https://statusgator.com/services/azure

Re: Ask HN: Is ChatGPT down?

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Post by KennyBlanken »

novaRom wrote: post #28

Don't put all your eggs into one basket - what are some good free alternatives? I mean comparable "usefulness" including image understanding, voice interface, and general knowledge?

General knowledge?

Five times in two weeks I've asked OpenAI some basic factual information and it didn't get even close on any of them.

Re: Ask HN: Is ChatGPT down?

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Post by Mond_ »

novaRom wrote: post #28

Don't put all your eggs into one basket - what are some good free alternatives? I mean comparable "usefulness" including image understanding, voice interface, and general knowledge?

If you're using ChatGPT actively, then surely you have heard of Gemini and Grok (no clue of how far Grok gets you nowadays, but Gemini should. Not sure how good the voice interface is).

Re: Ask HN: Is ChatGPT down?

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Post by manmal »

novaRom wrote: post #28

Don't put all your eggs into one basket - what are some good free alternatives? I mean comparable "usefulness" including image understanding, voice interface, and general knowledge?

Not free, but something I‘m doing right now: Using Cursor‘s chat mode with my prepaid Anthropic key. Works pretty well as a stop gap.

Re: Ask HN: Is ChatGPT down?

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Post by kshacker »

deadbabe wrote: post #35

Don’t understand these people who can’t work without ChatGPT. Just look stuff up on stack overflow.

ChatGPT does much better when it gets it right.

Stackoverflow will have duplicates, approximates and what not and sometimes that works. But at other times, you hunt for a half hour before you figure it out.

You can throw the problem at ChatGPT, it may go wrong but your course correct it with simple instructions and slowly but steadily you move towards your goal with minimal noise of the irrelevant discussions.

What stands between the solution and you then is your ability to figure out when it is hallucinating and guide it to the right direction. But as a solution developer you should have that insight anyways

Re: Ask HN: Is ChatGPT down?

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Post by manmal »

porphyra wrote: post #30
novaRom wrote: post #28

Don't put all your eggs into one basket - what are some good free alternatives? I mean comparable "usefulness" including image understanding, voice interface, and general knowledge?

Grok 2 is available for free for all X users [1] [1] https://x.ai/blog/grok-1212

Is it comparable with OpenAI’s and Anthropic’s models? I have a strong resistance towards using Musk‘s products nowadays, but maybe I should take a look over the fence.
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