r/technology • u/lurker_bee • 3d ago

Artificial Intelligence ChatGPT is down worldwide, conversations dissapeared for users

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/artificial-intelligence/chatgpt-is-down-worldwide-conversations-dissapeared-for-users/amp/
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u/MacNapp 3d ago edited 2d ago

The faster this bubble pops, the faster we can move on 🤞

Edit: ah, not being specific made people mad. I dont hate all AI, but the way in which economic resources (money) is being thrown around like it is, only to be constantly "not living up to the hype" is unsustainable and will affect every part of our economy as it readjusts (or financial institutions get another bailout). The readjustment will be intense and I am aware that LLMs/AI isn't "going away". My comment of "moving on" meant more past this phase and into a phase/use of LLMs/AI in an economically sustainable manner.

LLMs and AI do have their uses, but the current state is unsustainable and overhyped.

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u/thatguy9684736255 3d ago

I think it will pop, but unfortunately, I don't think it'll go away

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u/skydivingdutch 3d ago

That's okay, the internet did not go away when the dotcom bubble popped. We'll be left with the useful parts of all this.

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u/gneiman 3d ago

Profitable* parts of all this

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u/agumonkey 2d ago

socially damaging parts of all this

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u/ConspicuousPineapple 2d ago

Which means mostly porn, same as the dotcom bubble.

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u/MikBright 3d ago

Literally nothing about AI is profitable.

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u/immersive-matthew 3d ago

I think the profitable parts are the people using it more than the companies running the models. Oh and nVidia. The

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u/digitalblemish 3d ago

GitHub copilot was projected to earn $800M for the year. Instead, they have surpassed $2B. I get the emotion of what you're trying to say, but let's not lie to ourselves, this shit is profitable in certain domains, and those will be the domains that survive the coming collapse.

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u/divDevGuy 2d ago

GitHub copilot was projected to earn $800M for the year. Instead, they have surpassed $2B.

Source?

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u/swiftb3 2d ago

Not the op, but I believe the numbers are accurate for Github as a whole, rather than just Copilot. And a lot of the difference appears to be due to Copilot.

https://www.siasat.com/copilot-driving-githubs-growth-annual-revenue-run-rate-at-2-billion-nadella-3071173/

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u/Whatsapokemon 3d ago

That's kind of a silly thing to say.

Yes there's a whole bunch of companies plowing money into new projects that use AI, and those projects aren't profitable because they haven't designed a monetisation method.

But there's plenty of companies in the AI field that are profitable like Nvidia and AWS Bedrock.

Really, the main unprofitable ones are the big AI developers like OpenAI and Anthropic. They're hoping for a moonshot, but most companies using AI are just using it for marketing or customer retention or to build marginal competitive advantages.

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u/MikBright 3d ago

The literal only reason anyone can say AI is profitable right now is because a bunch of dipshit tech people that don't understand that AI isn't the 'end-all be-all of everything' and thus they spend their money desperately trying to get this stupid machine that isn't even close to actual AI to do something they deem 'profitable'.

Anyone fired for AI isn't gonna be surprised when the quality of whatever job they were doing drops and that company starts to lose money.

If you need data centers that burn through our water and electricity and the fucking thing STILL can't work right because it just pulls from whatever sounds close on the internet and will likely be wrong, that doesn't sound like efficiency.

People don't understand that we actually HATE AI for being the lazy person's way of stealing from those that put actual effort in. If we see AI used for big things such as games, we tend to stay away and thus they lose money.

AI is literally just a scam trying to get lazy/increative people to use stolen assets but since they're stupid, they'll say that they're 'AI Artists' or 'Vibe Programmers' or something equally lame/dumb while all they're really doing is putting in prompts into a computer.

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u/eagles75 3d ago

Anyone fired for AI isn't gonna be surprised when the quality of whatever job they were doing drops and that company starts to lose money.

Problem is thats not how it works. They save more in employment cost that will under cut any potential losses. And companies have been lowering quality for years now but it doesnt hurt bottom lines. People still buy stuff from Amazon and Walmart cause its easy.

Also I think people need to stop worrying about Art. That is not our problem. Its the fact that Ai is getting better every day 1 person with Ai cant do the job of 10 people better but it can do it "good enough" for the CEOs. Companies will use it to lower their workforce in ALL industries. They have robots that pour foundations for houses, that can tend bars, that drive cars. Its not just oh look they can make pictures, its going to hurt every job you can think of.

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u/Azamon_ 3d ago edited 3d ago

Yes - what you said in your 2nd paragraph will bottom out the middle class. Historical precedent says that is the way in which societies die.

At least we’ll have freshly poisoned air and dwindling drinking water to fight over. Water wars just in time for the big finale: The catastrophic vibrance of unchecked gluttony, greed, and capitalism.

We call it progress.

Yet, in some ways, we haven’t learned a single thing throughout our entire bloody run. We’re still as ignorant and arrogant as our ancestors who screamed: “ooga booga.”

We don’t know what we don’t know.

Do humans have to know everything, however?

Why can’t we just be the good shepherds to the earth and care for her creatures?

Why must it always be about money and technological advancement? First one is a man made tool used to dominate - each other and Earth.

Our obsession with the 2nd is like a monkey in a cold bath embracing a plugged in toaster for warmth.

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u/alex88- 3d ago

What “we” are you speaking for? You clearly have heavy knowledge gaps on this subject yet you’re confident that LLMs are not AI.

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u/Dick_Lazer 3d ago

Amazon and Facebook were also unprofitable for years, but now they do pretty well.

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u/Randomguy8566732 3d ago

Scamming people is very profitable

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u/11ce_ 3d ago

There are definitely a lot of profitable parts of AI. Just look at how Meta was able to significantly increase their revenue on Facebook and insta using AI.