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Yes, but is it a load-bearing seam?
Honestly, this is worth looking at — with one caveat.
That's on me. I've been giving confident advice that doesn't hold up in practice.
Ask HN: Why were OpenAI, Claude, and Grok simultaneously down?
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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/
Sounds just like the fantastical nonsense that comes out of Lesswrong.
Do you make the claim that AI is something more than a reflection of its training data?
I'm curious what other things you would argue influences an LLM's behavior.
I am also generally one to trust the claims of the people who train the models, though you're welcome to the highly improbable belief that they operate in a fantasy world.
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#483Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
And isn't that the great lesson of AI?
The things we say publicly actually do matter and the post-modern descent into absurdity and nihilism has tangible negative consequences?
Re: Ask HN: Why were OpenAI, Claude, and Grok simultaneously down?
#484Cloudflare, Azure, AWS, and Google Cloud all have a similar uptick in reported errors around 7:30. I suspect an outage on Cloudflare or another load-bearing service cascaded through all the major cloud providers. https://downdetector.com/status/cloudflare/ https://downdetector.com/status/windows-azure/ https://downdetector.com/status/aws-amazon-web-services/ https://downdetector.com/status/google-cloud/
Will the post-mortem reveal they all relied on a service running on a Macbook in a break room with a "Do not turn off" sign taped to it?
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#485If 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.
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If the seams bear too much load, they rip. Whereas pants, they fall down. I'll be honest with you: this is why we need to take a belt-and-suspenders approach.
That's not just an observation, it's an insight. Words are doing the real work.
This just makes me angry!
I really wonder if they can fix it. Fable 5.1 claims to speak humanese, but we'll see.
I tend to think this wierd limited vocabulary/style they use is an unwanted side effect of all the the RL training, perhaps also of being trained on their own synthetic content over multiple training cycles.
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#489Strangely, it's currently not reported on both https://status.openai.com/ and https://updog.ai/status/openai . Any better source (other than HN)?
Status pages of tech firms being useless is basically a tradition at this stage