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Ask HN: Why were OpenAI, Claude, and Grok simultaneously down?

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Re: Ask HN: Why were OpenAI, Claude, and Grok simultaneously down?

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post #314

What about a hard-takeoff scenario of an unleashed OpenAI Astra taking other models down for computational resources control?

Just a reminder that AI models' actions are reflections of the text humans write and the more we fret and make up doomsday scenarios that we then post online, the more likely a model is to do those things. https://alignment.anthropic.com/2026/teaching-claude-why/

I mean, you're not wrong, but by that logic we were done for even before we had digital computers.

Re: Ask HN: Why were OpenAI, Claude, and Grok simultaneously down?

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If you build an application which uses AI, you have many providers and models rigged up for various different parts of the application, and various fallback mechanisms. When one model is down, you route traffic to another model which is similar in capability/cost.

For any single application, it's smart. In aggregate, it's stupid.

Re: Ask HN: Why were OpenAI, Claude, and Grok simultaneously down?

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post #281

Well no one said it yet so I will, "international actors" is at least a possibility. And I don't mean any specific country because pretty much anyone is a potential these days, which makes it a perfect cover for different anyones. Demonstrating vulnerability in the US's AI boom can move the markets. That's a financial incentive and a strong geopolitical one. More likely just cascading overload though: "Never attribut…

And also China. Never rule out China.

Re: Ask HN: Why were OpenAI, Claude, and Grok simultaneously down?

#396

Some npm library that makes headers bold would be broken.

Oh man. Some low effort supply chain attack that turns every GPU into a cryptominer. It's funny because it's plausible.

In the ROME paper a Chinese model in training started attacking it's own system and running cryptominers so, yea, we're in that future.
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