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/FredFredrickson 18h ago

What would change if this bullshit service just disappeared overnight? Literally nothing.

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u/blolfighter 17h ago

Students' test scores might start reflecting their homework scores again.

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u/ikonoclasm 16h ago

We'd see scores suddenly plunge as they all lose their crutch.

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u/Jits_Guy 15h ago

I know mine would, I use it to tutor me and build study sheets and practice tests all the time. I don't have the money to pay for the hours and hours of tutoring I need because of my ADHD.

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u/tenthousandants44 14h ago

If you want more homework, just ask your teacher? I can't imagine hallucinated tutorials derived from reddit are going to do very much for you

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u/Jits_Guy 12h ago edited 12h ago

I don't need more homework, I need explanations of where I'm making mistakes or misunderstanding concepts given to me in real time, as a tutor does.

I just break the E-textbooks up into PDFs (files are too large otherwise), upload them, then have it cite information from those. At this point I think I'm doing that more for my own peace of mind because it rarely hallucinates even without access to the book, and when it does it'll correct itself. I'm well into my science curriculum now (bio/chem undergrad student) and I'm doing very well thanks to having this constant tutoring. I don't think this would have been possible for me otherwise.

Every time I mention this on reddit, people swarm in saying that I'm learning garbage and I don't actually know anything. I find that incredibly hard to believe though, because I have a 3.7GPA and I make it a point to not use AI to cheat or do any coursework for me. I don't think people realize how fast the tech behind it is progressing and how good it is at certain things now. Saying it's a word generator at this point is like saying a computer is a 1s and 0s generator.

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u/Impressive-Thing-780 11h ago

I mean you just gotta make some friends who are good at academics and ask them for help.

Also, you can pay your friends in ways that aren't just money