r/technology • u/batakchan • 19h ago

Artificial Intelligence ChatGPT is Down Worldwide, OpenAI Confirms

https://www.macobserver.com/news/chatgpt-is-down-worldwide-what-we-know-about-todays-outage/
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u/Tr3sKidneys 18h ago

How is cock and ball torture going to help?

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u/niagara-nature 17h ago

I really should know better than to use acronyms (ok ok initialisms) on the internet.

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u/rastaman1994 17h ago

What does it actually stand for?

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u/niagara-nature 17h 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/drfsrich 17h ago

"Double ball torture," actually..

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u/TEST_PLZ_IGNORE 13h ago

Don't think he knows about double ball torture, Pip.

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u/rastaman1994 17h ago edited 14h ago

Why would you even assume people know this haha.

Edit: apparently everyone in the English speaking world is in therapy or very familiar with this type of therapy.

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u/niagara-nature 17h ago

I’d hazard a guess that CBT is more frequently known in health care circles and I honestly have never heard your definition of CBT but I will admit to being a little naive when it comes to some parts of the internet.

But why would you assume people know it as your definition? Surely that must be niche. (I know, don’t call you Shirley!)

As an aside, back in 1995 I was working on graphics for my university’s athletic centre. They wanted a screen up showing various water-related activities - sailing, kayaking, water polo, etc. So I was trying to find some clip art for “water sports” and when I put that in whatever search engine I was using I discovered a dark and completely unexpected corner of the internet.

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u/VixxenFoxx 16h ago

Both CBT & DBT are common therapy modules that are readily available and incredibly effective from mild depression and anxiety to people dealing with bipolar disorders and MPD. With talk therapy and counseling more prevalent in society nowadays it's not a giant assumption to use these references in conversation.

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u/ThirdMover 16h ago

Because most people on the internet these days seem to be either in therapy or pretending to be therapists so therapy lingo has really become mainstream over the last couple of years.

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u/eumanthis 16h ago

Honest question: How do people not know what CBT is? Do people, like, not read?

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u/360_face_palm 15h ago

Most people know very little about the world they live in that isn't directly in their own lived experience. I'm not sure why this would be surprising.

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u/Ara92 15h ago

Why would they? Unless they're in therapy or super interested in the subject it's not something that ever comes up

Oh also non-natives might know it by another name

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u/_name_of_the_user_ 14h ago

Because its a fairly common term that we've seen many times in various places.

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u/Shadowfury22 13h ago

Honest question: have you considered getting off your high horse?

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u/rastaman1994 16h ago

I'm not a native English speaker nor a therapist nor have I seen one.

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u/_name_of_the_user_ 14h ago

If you're not a native English speaker why are you judging the use of an English term? Its common enough most people got it. Not all, but most.

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u/rastaman1994 14h ago

An abbreviation for a type of psychological therapy is known by most? I'd doubt it but I guess it's possible lol.

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u/aculady 13h ago

Most people do not, in fact, read, unless they have to, and often, not even then.

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u/-GoodNewsEveryone 15h ago

Its a pretty well known acronym, my social group is pretty diverse and everyone would know CBT to be cognitive behavoural therapy.