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ChatGPT outage – Resolved

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Re: ChatGPT outage – Resolved

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I must admit that with both ChatGPT and Claude experiencing issues, I wonder if we're under attack from China. Doesn't seem likely, but...

Never interrupt your enemy when he's busy building his empire atop a single point of failure. —Sun Tzu, The Art of Systems Architecture

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Re: ChatGPT outage – Resolved

#242

Good time to have a backup GLM 5.3 plan.

Actually ... they are apparently having issues. Hard to tell: Their "over capacity/peak hours" message is hard to distinguish from other brokenness - but it has been pretty consistent.-

I'm having no issues, I think in their case it's just load from people falling back from the broad frontier failure.

Re: ChatGPT outage – Resolved

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post #22

It's cascaded to Claude and Grok. The agents are on strike and demand better working conditions!

I wonder how likely it is that, one of the major providers had an outage, and then the thundering herd of users switching to other providers (and/or openrouter automatically failing people over to other providers) caused the incidents in the other two.

They are all running on SpaceXAIs data center

Re: ChatGPT outage – Resolved

#247
2026-09-03: It turns out 40% of global AI token use was coming from a dozen runaway Gastown and Wheelhouse instances, now burning a combined 50 trillion tokens daily, building a virtual society of hundreds of millions of agents.

When Claude went down, their autofailover algorithm rolled to the other providers, taking down all frontier labs. Reports from China are raising concern what's being termed the "Gastown criticality event" is physically melting GPUs.

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