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It’s not just you: ChatGPT is down for many users right now. Here’s the latest on OpenAI’s confirmed outage.

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[-] Gsus4@mander.xyz 23 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)
[-] Boiglenoight@lemmy.world 13 points 1 month ago

That icon looks like a stylized asshole.

[-] floofloof@lemmy.ca 9 points 1 month ago

So does their CEO.

[-] mushroommunk@lemmy.today 8 points 1 month ago

Go look at more AI company logos. Many of them look like buttholes for some reason.

[-] AdamEatsAss@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month ago
[-] NachBarcelona@piefed.social 1 points 1 month ago
[-] Tylerdurdon@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

It means the truth is out there, but up someone's cornhole. Keep searching my friend.

[-] TheFrirish@tarte.nuage-libre.fr 12 points 1 month ago
[-] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

I've never seen this in motion....

[-] tidderuuf@lemmy.world 11 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

First of many outages as they realize how much cash they are burning and can't stay afloat.

My company locked down our AI models to tech leads and chief engineers because the average user could save a lot more money by just using Google.

[-] aeronmelon@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago
[-] etchinghillside@reddthat.com 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

This is news? Am I just jaded by Anthropic’s uptime?

edit: the attempted funny is that Anthropic is down so often it’s hardly news.

[-] panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 month ago

Anthropic was also down today.

And Google had internal issues they didn't publicly report.

[-] db2@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

tf you mean "it's not just me" never have never will. Entirely local I'm good with, data mines run by racist pedophiles is a pretty easy nope for me. Can you say the same?

[-] MadMadBunny@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)
[-] dusty_raven@discuss.online 1 points 1 month ago
[-] k0e3@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 month ago

The factorial fiend strikes again.

[-] aceshigh@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

There’s another outage? There was one 8 or so hours ago.

[-] Rhoeri@piefed.world 1 points 1 month ago

Good. Let’s hope it stays down.

[-] hperrin@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 month ago

Oh no! They’ll have to actually think!

[-] mczolly@piefed.social 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I know people who will be unable to get information now

[-] Bustedknuckles@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month ago

"it's not just you"? It's not even me. I wonder how many complaints there were - would be a good metric of actual usage

[-] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

Kind of. As long as you understand that people like me exist.

I ordered a big mac from McDonalds one time. I got a chicken sandwich instead.

I was sitting inside. I could easily have went back to the counter and said something.

Instead, I just went with it. Guess I'm having a chicken sandwich today!

Now, that being said, I also don't use AI. So, I would have never noticed it being down. But hypothetically, if I tried to use AI, and it didn't work, I'd just do something else instead.

So it won't be the number of complaints = the number of users affected. But it does give you somewhat of a scale.

[-] fallaciousBasis@lemmy.world -2 points 1 month ago
[-] Rhoeri@piefed.world 2 points 1 month ago

It’d be great if it didn’t though.

[-] floofloof@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 month ago
[-] fallaciousBasis@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

I just prefer it to search engines these days. Chatgpt will give you good basic answers with direct links to citations.

Most search engines just produce endless commercial spam. I can instruct chatgpt to basically be Google scholar on steroids and get highly relevant academic results, which I then go read. "Based on highly regarded scientific literature like nature, please find me links regarding ...." Works great! In you need, "no summaries, no conjecture. I don't want your thoughts about this. I just want highly cited links/literature. Please act like a good search engine chat GPT." And it generally does pretty great, minimizing me having to wade through shit-tons of SEO garbage.

I'm not having much discussion with it, except for fun/novelty.

this post was submitted on 04 Feb 2026
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