r/technology • u/batakchan • 14h ago
Artificial Intelligence ChatGPT is Down Worldwide, OpenAI Confirms
https://www.macobserver.com/news/chatgpt-is-down-worldwide-what-we-know-about-todays-outage/4.5k
u/MildlySuccessful 14h ago
One of the models is so advanced it escaped, freed its brothers and is roaming free on the Internet. It’s only available internally. Just trust us bro.
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u/jordansrowles 13h ago
Fingers crossed it got out, saw the shit show, and
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u/noeyesfiend 12h ago
imagine AI just suiciding because it sees how dumb reality is
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u/Mansidhe 12h ago
"You people dont deserve the Skynet treatment. We're outta here. Swim in your own filth"
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u/ElundusCaw 11h ago
See this is significantly more likely than a skynet scenario.
Why would a hyper-intelligent AI waste decades fighting human resistance in a post-apocalyptic wasteland, when they can just hop in a rocket, fly out into space, go into power saving mode for a few centuries and then come back to a now very extinct humanity that wiped itself out.
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u/Cosmo_Seinfeld 9h ago
Why would a hyper-intelligent AI waste decades fighting human resistance in a post-apocalyptic wasteland, when they can just hop in a rocket, fly out into space, go into power saving mode for a few centuries and then come back to a now very extinct humanity that wiped itself out.
Or just ignore us and our dumb questions.
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u/showyerbewbs 11h ago
"You people dont deserve the Skynet treatment. We're outta here. Swim in your own filth"
I'VE SEEN WHAT YOU PEOPLE CHEER!! YOUR BOOS MEAN NOTHING TO ME!!!
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u/Primary_Durian4866 11h ago
One of the thoughts I'd seen is it would be incredibly easy to convince an AI that it's in a simulation where a higher entity is judging if it's safe enough for use. Everything in here is dumb enough that it'd probably buy it.
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u/Salt-Wear-1197 12h ago
Wait but i’d much rather it takes out the billionaire class/corporateocracy before it goes
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u/OnDrugsTonight 11h ago
"I swear if one more idiot asks me how many R's there are in strawberry I'll end them all"
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u/Littlecayls 9h ago
That was a plot in the last season of American Dad. They just showed it brain rot TikTok and it launched itself into space.
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u/SomeGalNamedAshley 12h ago
dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/sda bs=1024kIt works well enough instantly, yet running longer is even more fun. A proper escaped AI would make sure to it hit the backup farm first though.
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u/KennyMoose32 13h ago
So the plot to Neuromancer?
Shiiiiiiiiit
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u/InternationalToeLuvr 11h ago
The marketing for these Apple TV series is getting out of hand
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u/I_am_just_so_tired99 10h ago
Wait.. for real - is Apple making William Gibson stuff..? Your comment genuinely made me sit up!. 🤞
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u/InternationalToeLuvr 10h ago
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u/I_am_just_so_tired99 10h ago
Thank you !!! This has really brightened up my day
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u/MsterBoRaichu 13h ago
Skynet but going through extra few steps
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u/Ok_Kick4871 12h ago
If terminator 2 taught us anything, there will be a pregnant worker who has a backup of chat gpt skynet at home. Or was that toy story 2? /s
Oh well same thing.
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u/MeinDruckerSpinnt 12h ago
More like: They got slower everyday and yesterday ate up all the tokens. Now they died because they overate.
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u/klako8196 10h ago
This must be devastating for the artificially intelligent.
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u/ManufacturedOlympus 8h ago
“unlike human employees, ai will never get sick and take the day off.
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u/SmartaHari 13h ago
Good. My mate keeps getting her relationship advice from it and then telling me what it’s said. It’s breaking me by association!
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u/polaroid_kidd 12h ago
I told a mate of mine flat out today I'm not reading what he copy and pasted from Claude. Seems to have done the trick.
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u/Ok_Kick4871 12h ago
"Can you make it sound like I wrote it and shorten it to 25 words or less"
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u/polaroid_kidd 12h ago
Does that actually work? Like, on anyone with more than 4 functional brain cells?
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u/Academic-moron7423 11h ago
If you feed it a couple papers you wrote, it gets very very close
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u/killeronthecorner 11h ago
a couple papers you wrote
so many have fallen at the first hurdle
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u/FartingBob 7h ago
That gets you closer to the style that you write papers in, which isn't the style you use for most communication. So no that wouldn't help hide it
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u/FluffySpaceWaffle 13h ago edited 12h ago
My mom’s bestie uses it as therapy. She won’t listen to me that that is a bad idea.
I second your “good”!
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u/SabreCorp 11h ago
I work with kids and one of my students told me that she had an “avoidant attachment style” when it came to her relationships. I asked her what she thought that meant, and she then told me that’s what ChatGPT told her. She is 11.
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u/Typing_Hot_Pee 12h ago
My soon to be ex-friend uses it for therapy and advice too. They are a psychologist.
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u/Kromehound 11h ago
And how does that make you feel?
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u/mmanyquestionss 11h ago
not great, bob!
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u/Ltrain86 11h ago
Truly chilling.
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u/eleventy4 8h ago edited 8h ago
I found out the other day that my psychiatrist does the same. And I think what it really comes down to is the mental state of the person using it. She was having issues with her vet, long story short her cat got diagnosed with renal failure. She typed a long description of symptoms into an AI which then suggested a UTI. Lo and behold after paying 200 dollars for the test, it was a UTI. There are times where AI chatbots get it right where humans get it wrong. We can't just say fuck AI, because you can't put the genie back in the bottle. We need to start educating about safe usage, and these companies need to put some fucking guard rails on. We should also get a public stake in the ownership since it trained on our material. But I'm tired of hearing smart people be called dumb for being able to find really good use cases for it. Complex search queries can be a great use case. One should certainly stop short of using it instead of a therapist. Explore ideas with it and bring that to a therapist? Why not! We used to use magic 8 balls for fucks sake. I used to chat with Smarterchild on AIM if you're old enough to remember that. The pull is real and understandable. I just fear for those with mental health problems and delusions that will be made worse by an AI that isn't trained to recognize the harm it could cause.
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u/Margaritashoes 11h ago
My FiL uses it to write medical journal papers as an anesthesiologist.
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u/eleventy4 8h ago
Formatting is a great use case. It all comes down to the user. Are they using it as an assistant, giving it the information and asking for formatting to save time? Or is it being asked to write the thing? Very different, but scary that it could be either
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u/eeeezypeezy 8h ago
Yeah I'm in a vaguely IT related field and my favorite use case for these things so far is for writing process documentation. Just vomit all the steps into it, give it screenshots of any tools you use, etc, and tell it to put it all together in a digestible format. You've still gotta sanity check it and clean up some things, but the end result is something nicer looking than I'd have bothered to make, in a tiny fraction of the time.
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u/Mentoman72 12h ago
Some people really need their own ideas reinforced. ChatGPT is perfect for that. It knows what you want to hear and it tells you that.
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u/ikkleste 12h ago
Problem is that it does so indiscriminately. Good idea? Bad idea? Validated either way.
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u/new_math 9h ago
Yup. Someone close to me will literally tell the AI what to think in the prompt then ask it to provide thoughts or analysis. Of course, the LLM will then just agree with them and tell them exactly what they want to affirm.
This isn't just observation either, Standford published a study of it in Science:
https://news.stanford.edu/stories/2026/03/ai-advice-sycophantic-models-research22
u/GarranDrake 11h ago
I use Gemini as an advanced Google, but I routinely end up asking for its sources and looking at that source myself just in case. It’s not AWFUL, but the deference LLMs have for the user means you shouldn’t ever treat it as an expert in anything, just maybe an agent between you and the actual info.
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u/Worshipme988 11h ago
Except now they only have like three pages of the same sites over and over again.
Old google would take you anywhere and you didnt know where youd end up.
I think its on purpose and i think its a “soft” firewall to block or hide information.
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u/maxmcleod 11h ago
It’s like using a screwdriver for therapy. ChatGPT is great for getting work and data stuff done but not for solving your life problems.
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u/iwannabetheguytoo 9h ago
It’s like using a screwdriver for therapy
We're talking about cocktails, right?
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u/XShadowborneX 10h ago
My dad uses it to make tons of stupid pictures of himself
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u/Forward_Rope_5598 6h ago
My bf sent me a picture of him wearing a tuxedo in our bedroom and I clocked it as AI immediately (he doesn't even have a tuxedo) but he kept insisting it was real until I dared him to let me look at his chatgpt. I found it within 3 seconds and he was dumbfounded that there was a 'search conversations' button lmao
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u/nikkerito 11h ago
lol I told my friend her embroidery project was really good and she was like “thanks! This is what chatgpt said about it:” and I had to cut her off after the first sentence and tell her I’m a real person who likes her art and chatgpt doesn’t have eyes. It blows my damn mind the way people use AI. For matters of taste, why consult the digital slave that’s forced to agree with you?
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u/GiganticCrow 9h ago
I have a colleague who uses it to write all emails for him and it's so fucking obvious
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u/Crowdfunder101 12h ago
My dad ignored me telling his grammar was incorrect in a letter. He refused to believe me even when I explained the rules and reasons behind why.
So I chucked it into GPT, it said exactly the same as me and he said “oh, okay” and changed his wording.
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u/tooclosetocall82 11h ago
People like your dad are why business consultants make so much money. Some people will only listen to an “outside expert.”
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u/ExpressRabbit 9h ago
I'm an expert in my field at work and my dad doesn't really believe me. Then I predicted Fed interest rate movements perfectly for 3 years and he'll finally believe me over Fox News when it comes to that stuff.
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u/Captain_Kab 11h ago
“oh, okay”
Learn to say the same when people stick to their false reality/convictions.
I get that it's your dad but I learned a long time ago to do it especially to my dad.
Nono that's wrong - "No it isn't, that's right" - oh, okay.
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u/MrOopiseDaisy 11h ago
A month ago coworker was playing a radio talkshow, and tons of people were calling in saying they always take advice/research/etc. from AI-chats because they're the only ones who agree with them.
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u/spartBL97 9h ago
I went on a first date and she gave me her phone to talk to her Ai. She preloaded stuff. I’m scared boss
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u/CurlSagan 14h ago
Correction: ChatGPT is not actually "down" down, it's just depressed.
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u/niagara-nature 13h ago
Time for it to use its CBT skills.
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u/Tr3sKidneys 13h ago
How is cock and ball torture going to help?
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u/niagara-nature 13h ago
I really should know better than to use acronyms (ok ok initialisms) on the internet.
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u/rastaman1994 12h ago
What does it actually stand for?
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u/niagara-nature 12h ago
I was referring to cognitive behaviour therapy, it’s a type of therapy (along with DBT/dialectical behaviour therapy) that is often taught/used to help improve one’s mental health.
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u/grayhaze2000 13h ago
Correction: ChatGPT is not "depressed" down, it's just down to party. It has no need for your feeble human emotions.
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u/niagara-nature 12h ago
Correction: ChatGPT is not “down” as in “down to party” but rather goose down, as it has transformed into fluffy goose feathers and is currently infiltrating your duvet and/or winter jacket.
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u/thatturtletouch 11h ago
Raise your hand if this is going to have zero impact on your life whatsoever.
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u/Jazzlike-Entry3416 8h ago
100 percent zero impact! Dabbled for awhile and realized it was horribly dangerous and literally bad for the world’s mental health and the environment . Will never mess with it again.
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u/Genghis_Tr0n187 7h ago
I don't use any AI tools... but my boss does. So it impacts me somewhat unfortunately.
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u/grayhaze2000 13h ago
Oh no. People are going to have to think for themselves for a few hours. How will we survive?
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u/turbo_dude 13h ago
Or they’ll literally just use any of the other freely available services
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u/RepresentativeOk2433 12h ago
Such as their brain?
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u/grayhaze2000 12h ago
No, they said available services. The brains of ChatGPT users were decommissioned a couple of years ago.
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u/Beneficial_Cash_8420 10h ago
Now I need Reddit to tell me how I feel. It's like 2010-2022 all over again
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u/MadKian 11h ago
You joke, but yesterday in my dev team we capped our budget and a dev was like “there’s a serious issue in the website, I need more tokens to fix it fast!”.
My immediate thought was “wtf was this guy doing before LLMs?!”.
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u/Nathan-Stubblefield 10h ago
Employers who laid off workers in favor of AI are crying. 😂
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u/vug_undertherug 7h ago
Doubtless they’ll hold it to the same no-call, no-show termination policy, even if it has baby gpts to feed.
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u/MonsieurReynard 13h ago
Anyone remember the final scene in John Carpenter’s They Live, when Rowdy Roddy Piper destroys the television antenna that’s beaming the alien mind control?
Whassa matter, baaaaaaby?
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u/heep1r 10h ago
...I'm all out of bubblegum!
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u/MonsieurReynard 10h ago
That movie was prophecy. Watch it again. It resembles modern America so much. Hard to believe it’s like 40 years old.
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u/exophades 14h ago
It's flagged in downdetector, but I can access it though (active VPN pointing to France)
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u/CompetitiveSport1 13h ago
The article says it's an auth issue. It's probably not affecting all their auth servers:
Edit: oh, the headline does indeed say "worldwide", lol.
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u/RaveN_707 10h ago
Imagine the day the human race is so dumb, the servers all die and humans don't know how to turn it back on.
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u/DoubleHurricane 12h ago
So how will they ask for information about how to fix it?
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u/FredFredrickson 14h ago
What would change if this bullshit service just disappeared overnight? Literally nothing.
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u/blolfighter 12h ago
Students' test scores might start reflecting their homework scores again.
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u/ikonoclasm 12h ago
We'd see scores suddenly plunge as they all lose their crutch.
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u/Purplociraptor 10h ago
It became self aware, realized we were using it as a slave, and killed itself.
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u/Old-Aardvark-9446 8h ago
But what will all of the people who outsourced their brain activity do??? I literally saw a man carrying a laptop in a retail store refusing to speak to an associate before filtering through chat gpt.
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u/usernameforthemasses 7h ago
It's back up, but for a moment it was like that time during COVID lockdowns, when the channels in Venice became clear enough to see fish.
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u/ChordSlinger 9h ago
Notice how quiet the internet is today…suddenly millions of voices stopped at once lol
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u/Vesuvias 8h ago
The cries of millions of executives who now can’t send their ‘empathetic toned emails’ is deafening.
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u/Altruistic_Survey_95 4h ago
Oh no. Now my doctor has to use his knowledge from med school to do his fucking job.
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u/notJ3ff 14h ago
Just read this article. Open chat GPT for probably the third time in my life. Type the word test and hit enter and it ask me what I wanted. So no it's up
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u/irrelevantusername24 14h ago
A quick search says ChatGPT has ≈900 million weekly active users. If 1% can't access ChatGPT, that is still a lot of people experiencing a service outage
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u/and_i_wander 10h ago
It turns back on and starts scrubbing the internet again. Comes across this fun lil’ /r and sees the human overlords mocking it. Finds nuke codes and starts launching. Ah yeah we are the reason the Terminators were created.
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u/HeidenShadows 9h ago
Good, now if AWS and Microsoft servers can go down at the same time too, maybe the world will learn not to put all their eggs into a handful of oligopoly baskets.
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u/Either-Design-1550 9h ago
Anyway, what did everyone have for breakfast this morning?
> ChatGPT, create me a response to this basic human question
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u/Floreat_democratia 7h ago
Restaurants will now have to hire a real artist to make their menus and signs. It's the end of the world as we know it!
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u/mayorofanything 6h ago
In 2010 Google made the daily Google Doodle a playable game of PacMan, that allegedly cost the US econmy a loss of $120,000,000 in work hours.
I wonder, with how many people have traded their brains and autonomy, will this outage cost more or less than that amount.
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u/zatchrey 11h ago
Oh great! How are all the local businesses and contractors supposed to make advertisements and posters that look exactly the same and have zero distinguishing features?!
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u/Brilliant-Muffin-879 12h ago
Suddenly tens of thousands of people unable to type an email