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Major outages across ChatGPT and API

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Re: Major outages across ChatGPT and API

#141

Lots of jokes to be made, but we are setting ourselves up for some big rippling negative effects by so quickly building a reliance on providers like OpenAI. It took years before most companies who now use cloud providers to trust and be willing to bet their operations on them. That gave the cloud providers time to make their systems more robust, and to learn how to resolve issues quickly.

Provided we can keep riding this hype wave for a while, I think the logical long term solution is most teams will have an in house/alternative LLM they can use as temporary backup.

Right now everyone is scrambling to just get some basic products out using LLMs but as people have more breathing room I can't image most teams not having a non-OpenAI LLM that they are using to run experiments on.

At the end of the day, OpenAI is just an API, so it's not an incredibly difficult piece of infrastructure to have a back up for.

Re: Major outages across ChatGPT and API

#144

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Bard devs secretly built it on top of OpenAI's api? /s

More likely OpenAI is using GCP or some other service that Bard is also using?

more like people are rushing to bard since they cant use chatgpt, causing a huge spike

Re: Major outages across ChatGPT and API

#146
post #29

It's at least nice to see a company call this what it is (a "major outage") - seems like most status pages would be talking about "degraded performance" or similar.

Most services have a lot more systems than OpenAI and thus it is degraded performance when a few of them don’t work. Degraded performance isn’t a good thing, I don’t understand the issue with this verbiage.

When a system is completely broken for most end users, some companies call it "degraded performance" when it should be, in fact, called "major outage".

Re: Major outages across ChatGPT and API

#147

Lots of jokes to be made, but we are setting ourselves up for some big rippling negative effects by so quickly building a reliance on providers like OpenAI. It took years before most companies who now use cloud providers to trust and be willing to bet their operations on them. That gave the cloud providers time to make their systems more robust, and to learn how to resolve issues quickly.

People that used google and have some technical skill can still survive an OpenAI meltdown

Re: Major outages across ChatGPT and API

#149
post #27

Phind is pretty good for coding (LLama 2 trained on billions of extra code tokens) and is still up https://www.phind.com/s

The first coding question I tested it on, it gave me something completely wrong and it was pretty easy stuff, I’m sure it gets a lot right but this just shows unreliability

Re: Major outages across ChatGPT and API

#150

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Azure OpenAI Service is up, and provides the same models as OpenAI https://azure.status.microsoft/status

Is it still "private" as in you have to request access?

It’s publicly available, but you still do have to request access I believe.
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