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OpenAI: Increased errors across API and ChatGPT

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Re: OpenAI: Increased errors across API and ChatGPT

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Has anyone managed to replicate the “search the web” functionality through the API? I’ve set up two “functions” one to get search results and one to extract the text from a search results and feed it back to the AI but I am a bit stuck. What do you use to extract the text from a webpage and how do you handle websites with anti-bot measures?

Shouldn’t the API response be the exact response you would get if you sent the same input to ChatGPT, assuming it’a the same model ?

Re: OpenAI: Increased errors across API and ChatGPT

#22

I think we need a new type of status page or at least a public version number on llms, yesterday for me GPT4 started giving nonsense super generic answers, like it was hardly reading what I wrote, and today it is back to top notch performance. I think they were trying to make the model more efficient or something but I just saw a massive decrease in the quality of output. From my side though, there is no version numb…

This conspiracy always comes up - don't you think that they test the output of the model revisions on probably 1000s of downstream tasks at this point? Bad responses are hard to reason about, could be prompting, could be a model revision, could just be bad luck.

Re: OpenAI: Increased errors across API and ChatGPT

#24

I think we need a new type of status page or at least a public version number on llms, yesterday for me GPT4 started giving nonsense super generic answers, like it was hardly reading what I wrote, and today it is back to top notch performance. I think they were trying to make the model more efficient or something but I just saw a massive decrease in the quality of output. From my side though, there is no version numb…

On a recent interview of Sam Altman (Hard Fork podcast) he mentioned that due to the load they have been trying to make optimizations, disable certain features, etc. so it’s not outside the realm of possibility that some tweak caused this.

Re: OpenAI: Increased errors across API and ChatGPT

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post #25

As an FYI, Bing Chat at http://bing.com/chat continues to work even during OpenAI outages. It's also running GPT-4 -- it can be annoying when it reaches out to search, but you can usually explicitly prompt it to not do that.

Yes it’s indeed an option. Note that Creative mode uses GPT-4, not the default Balanced.

Re: OpenAI: Increased errors across API and ChatGPT

#28
Does anyone know if Azure's OpenAI Studio is down as well? For everyone using ChatGPT APIs in production, this needs to be the most straightforward failover mechanism.

Using this to plug our open-source tool https://github.com/Marvin-Labs/lbgpt which allows ChatGPT consumers to quickly load balance and failover between OpenAi and Azure models.

Re: OpenAI: Increased errors across API and ChatGPT

#29

Has anyone managed to replicate the “search the web” functionality through the API? I’ve set up two “functions” one to get search results and one to extract the text from a search results and feed it back to the AI but I am a bit stuck. What do you use to extract the text from a webpage and how do you handle websites with anti-bot measures?

Shouldn’t the API response be the exact response you would get if you sent the same input to ChatGPT, assuming it’a the same model ?

No, ChatGPT is more than just a UI for the OpenAI API. Web requests are a feature built into ChatGPT using the API's support for function calls, but the API doesn't make any external web requests by itself.

Re: OpenAI: Increased errors across API and ChatGPT

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post #3

Not working for me. Am I going to have to read docs or search Google like some boomer?

If you are not ok with casually saying racist or sexist things, you probably also shouldn’t say ageist things either.

I think its okay to make little generational jokes. Its not like they said .. "Do I have to google this like some old f*ck?" ... Certain generations are slower to pick up technology.
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