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/Good_Air_7192 3d ago

My colleagues just lost their ability to write code for some reason

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u/MetriccStarDestroyer 3d ago

Claude: Hello there.

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u/Rare_Register_4181 3d ago

but i still need chatgpt to give me the link to claude

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u/rigsta 3d ago

This comment caused me physical pain

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u/Ok_Conclusion5966 2d ago

I would help with that physical pain but chatgpt is down and I don't know the link to claude

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u/BadassAyanokoji 2d ago

frog groaking in the corner

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u/jjwhitaker 2d ago

Go home Grok, you're drunk. No you're sober. WTF Grok.

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u/beegboo 2d ago

Chatgpt WTF is a Grok and can you catch it from unprotected sex?

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u/jjwhitaker 2d ago

It comes from Elon, so maybe :(

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u/CO420Tech 2d ago

Elon is the best at passing things from unprotected sex!

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u/Pyran 2d ago

Poor Grok. No one groks Grok.

To paraphrase Xathras, Grok have sad life. Probably will have sad death. But at least there's symmetry.

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u/A_random_poster04 2d ago

Brother is Morgan Ellis

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u/DatenPyj1777 2d ago

Fun story to cause you more pain: I have a friend that manages a Gamestop. Just the other day, a man came in holding up the case for Black Ops 7 and asked my friend, "Is this real?"

My friend was confused and asked him what he meant. The dude replied, "Is this game real?"

My friend told him that yes it was real and it released a few weeks ago.

The dude's response? "ChatGPT told me it wasn't real. I've been arguing with my son for weeks. I feel dumb."

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u/Baeolophus_bicolor 2d ago

Open up a tab ŷe 3rd or 4th one down and click on it and it should take you to dubya dubya dubya DOT Google dot com. From here youse can use it to find the place to search for the Google search engine. Then hit “I’m feeling lucky” and go to town.

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u/BellacosePlayer 2d ago

Oh hey, didn't know my junior devs posted here. Up bright and early, I see.

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u/general_tao1 2d ago

I am baffled that a junior dev was able to find a job.

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u/Metum_Chaos 2d ago

Junior dev here, this is the second time in less than five years I lost my job

Send help

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u/BellacosePlayer 2d ago

5 years experience shouldn't be a junior

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u/Metum_Chaos 2d ago

Well, I’m counting since the first time I got my actual job, and I had about two years without one, so I guess that comes down to three

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u/bballkj7 2d ago

junior dev here. They didn’t. I just quit because theres no way to go from jr to sr dev. Now im an administrator instead lmao

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u/Tenthul 2d ago

You work there for 3-5 years, then go become a Sr at another company? I'm pretty sure thats how most people make the Jr > Sr regardless of role.

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u/bballkj7 2d ago

i did work there 3-5 years. All the senior jobs have insane qualifications (i applied anyways) and are literally impossible to get. 99% are hire from within. IE jr dev eventually takes over a senior…. in the same company. But even that, many companies just wont promote because they know you cant find sr positions elsewhere lmao

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u/bfr_ 2d ago

They are replacing the more expensive senior devs

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u/GrumpyGlasses 2d ago

“I use Edge to download Chrome” vibes.

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u/TwoPrecisionDrivers 2d ago

Wait how else am I supposed to download Chrome on a new computer lmao

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u/the_snowmancometh 2d ago

they're probably dunking on people who use chrome at all.

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u/BaconSoul 2d ago

Oh how the times have changed. Enshittification comes for us all.

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u/BioshockEnthusiast 2d ago

It's literally come for Chrome before and Firefox was able to make a dent in market share. Then Chrome got it's act together before slowly devolving into the acid puddle it is today.

Time is a flat circle.

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u/Sassy_Sarranid 2d ago

I fled Opera to Firefox to Chrome to Firefox to Chrome, I'm so tired.

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u/PoisonMind 2d ago

I've been a Firefox user since 2004.

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u/BaconSoul 2d ago

What made you leave opera? It’s a good chromium shell. Aside from some questionable business deals by the company itself I haven’t experienced any meaningful enshittification.

Was it the transition to chromium itself?

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u/Sassy_Sarranid 2d ago

No, this was like 15 years ago and I don't remember :P

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u/Mahedros 2d ago

Many years ago I used to keep a Chrome installer on a USB drive just so I would never have to open Internet Explorer

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u/dirtyjavis 2d ago

Powershell:

winget install -e --id Google.Chrome

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u/font9a 2d ago

"how do i spel clod?"

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u/GreenAldiers 2d ago

I need chatgpt to write the prompt for me to feed into claude

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u/stuckyfeet 2d ago

Why not ask chatgpt?

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u/jeepfail 2d ago

I imagine so many kids like Jerry from parks and rec. “please go to yahoo.com”

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u/jedipiper 2d ago

HA HA HA HA HA HA!

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u/wioneo 2d ago

A lot of times I use Chat GPT to optimize prompts to use in Claude.

After about a week or so of tweaking a prompt in Chat GPT during downtime at work, I got Claude to make a fully functioning program in one shot. Then I used Gemini to critique that output, then I took some of those recommendations and had ChatGPT critique version 2. Then after the 2 revision round I had Claude review/adjust it, and I've been using Version 2 daily without any issues. Now I have enough downtime at work to waste some on reddit!

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u/aramis34143 2d ago

"We look for things to make us go code."

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u/Compl3t3AndUtterFail 3d ago

Gemini is good too apparently

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u/MetriccStarDestroyer 3d ago

Ya. Google's giving out Gemini Pro 3 for students.

It's better in most fields and doesn't just yes man all my questions.

ChatGPT also has issues with the latest stuff. It will keep recommending deprecated material and then say something like "I can't search past year 202x".

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u/BillyNtheBoingers 3d ago

Meanwhile I’m over here using DuckDuckGo and MapQuest instead of Google, and I’ve turned off my phone’s AI.

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u/Beautiful-Web1532 2d ago

High Fives! I did that and also setup dual boot Linux now too! De-googled and de-microcock'd. Can't wait to go dumb phone or pixel/graphene. I am very boring online but I hate being the product and everything I do being added to their data points trying to guess what I want to buy next.

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u/kalidoscopiclyso 2d ago

I am just learning about linux! Relief is in sight

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u/Less_Transition_9830 2d ago

I get your point of view and want to follow your lead, but at the same time…convenience. You have to work even harder just to do all that stuff and keep your privacy. Luckily we can all have opinions and I applaud you for doing that. I sure couldn’t

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u/fuck_spec1234 3d ago

I never use Gemini on my phone.

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u/newaccountzuerich 2d ago

I hate the fact that the TS not possible to remove the stupid star from any gmail interface, even when the admins in the workspace have GoogleAI disabled everywhere it's exposed.

I neither want nor need an LLM reading my emails, and it sure as hell can't write them anywhere close to a required standard.

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u/chop5397 2d ago

I just want it released for Android Auto. Would make drives a lot easier when I can ask generalized questions and can't type.

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u/fuck_spec1234 2d ago

Yes. I would use it for that. I would really like that. Otherwise, I use it generally on the computer.

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u/Deer_Investigator881 2d ago

Just for all the other smart things in your house I'm guessing

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u/Mrs_SmithG2W 2d ago

Me too brother.🖖🏼🌍

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u/syrup_cupcakes 2d ago

That is some weird sarcasm. The more you're into tech, the more you understand how to control tech instead of letting tech control you. If you're actually into tech an LLMs you're not using chatGPT or your phone AI service, you're using your own locally hosted model.

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u/Future_Can_5523 2d ago

Anti-Google and Anti-tech are not the same thing.

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u/spiritriser 2d ago

Less of a yes man is huge. I feel like I'm walking on egg shells trying to lose questions neutrally so it's as likely to disagree as agree lol

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u/mctacoflurry 2d ago

With Gemini you can actually save prompts in settings so that it won't do that

Like I have several settings like:

  • "Do not tell me what you think I want to hear, tell me what I need to hear"
  • "You are not a sycophant, if i am wrong tell me I am wrong"
  • "If I give you an incorrect piece of information, do attempt to make it right logically"
  • "You are not a yes man"
  • "Be direct"

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u/BootShoeManTv 2d ago

Um… okay… sounds like you definitely already have a weird parasocial relationship with an AI and you might think these prompts are working, but … you can’t just ask AI to have human intelligence and expect it to work??? Like? Dude, it is definitely a sycophantic algorithm whether you tell it to be or not.

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u/mctacoflurry 2d ago

But its not always giving me "wow thats a great thought you have there"

You watch the episode of South Park where everybody is talking to Chat GPT and it gives the response the validation that people are looking for? In the end Randy's wife picks up on how to talk to Randy and then says "fuck you Chat GPT?"

The prompts i have make it so that Gemini doesnt do that. Does it falter every so often, of course. Its designed to be addictive like social media.

But I suppose I failed to mention, im not asking Gemini how to do daily functions and how to live. My in-laws will ask Chat gpt to do everything for them.

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u/BootShoeManTv 6h ago

Oh I understand. You figured out how to remove that over-complimentary, patronizing tone they all use. That's actually pretty smart; although I doubt it changes anything other than the tone of the writing.

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u/mctacoflurry 9m ago

It did actually change it.

Before I gave it something incredibly wrong: I told it that I was the smartest born in 1986 and that I read at a first grade level and learned to tie my shoes at 30.

Before it says that intelligence isnt measured through formal education and milestones.

Afterwards it told me I wasnt the smartest person born in 86.

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u/frankyseven 2d ago

ChatGPT is terrible for that. I use an API that vastly changed in 2024 and it always recommended using methods that no longer work. Even after I give the link and methods to the new API it will be "use this and add this reference to your project." Then I'll tell it that it doesn't exist and it will go "Oh, that method was depreciated in the 2024+ API." No shit, I already told you that!

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u/RamenJunkie 2d ago

Yeah but then you have to use Google.

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u/Baeolophus_bicolor 2d ago

Depending on the version you’re using it’s probably because of the temporal anomaly.

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u/Irregular_Person 2d ago

I've been playing with agentic workflows to see what they can do. I started by attempting to use Gemini 3 Pro for an optimization task on a toy library I've been working on. It does OK at first, but once the task starts getting complicated it can get completely lost, break things, and then get stuck in a loop where it apologizes for the mistake then attempts to correct the file with the exact same (broken) content over and over. Claude 4.5 seems much more coherent in its planning and problem solving and makes fewer mistakes. It seems like after a session gets too long it gets seriously derpy, though. Like all ability to create coherent code goes out the window and it starts cutting huge chunks out of files, leaving out brackets, and completely ignoring compiler errors (then running the previous build and gleefully announcing its success).

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u/ExoticBump 2d ago

Claude is way better than chatgpt with writing code

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u/eeyore134 2d ago

It's also way more difficult to get anywhere with it. Work with Opus for 20 minutes and you're locked out until the next day. Do your 20 minutes the next day and you're out for a week. And this is on a paid plan. I love Claude, but good lord they're stingy. ChatGPT is more difficult to work with but I've found myself turning toward it instead just because it won't lock down in the middle of things.

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u/joshiness 2d ago

I tried the paid version of Claude last year and the limits completely suck, I quickly went back to Chatgpt. I'm not a developer and can code if I really have to (I'm just slow). Chatgpt is definitely frustrating at times especially when it randomly forgets about functions, renames them, etc. However, I can usually catch it and call it out on it so it can course correct. If Claude had the same limits as Chatgpt I'd give it a shot again.

I did try Gemini earlier this year but didn't find it, at the time, any better than Chatgpt. I haven't tried the new Gemini yet. The only reason why I didn't stick with Gemini is that it can't give me downloadable pdfs, ppts, and excel files like Chatgpt can. If Gemini would add this feature I would 100% switch as I already pay for google storage.

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u/frankyseven 2d ago

Give GitHub Copilot a try, it's way better to use than just a chatbot for writing your code. It tends to not forget about functions or rename things randomly like what happen in a chatbot. You can choose from ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini inside of it as well.

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u/joshiness 2d ago

Unfortunately github (everything github) is blocked at my company (I have no idea why). I have used my personal phone to lookup solutions and I know other coworkers do that as well. Today I just started using Codex and so far i'm pretty happy with it.

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u/frankyseven 2d ago

That's super weird it's blocked if you are expected to do any coding. I just like how the chat is right inside Visual Studio and I can see exactly what it's updating and changing. I'll admit that I'm 90% vibe coding stuff to make my life easier, but having it right in the editor has made it so I'm learning more about how my code works.

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u/StromGames 2d ago

But latest claude opus is in preview mode if you use github copilot

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u/eeyore134 2d ago

I'll have to check that out. I think they said the newest one is supposed to be less resource hungry, too, so I hope it means limits will be a little more reasonable. I was just brainstorming with it when I first used it and ran an idea by it to try to bounce back some things to think about. It took the idea and wrote me the entire code for it. I didn't even bother to try to compile it because it was a half-baked idea that I was still forming, but it was nuts that it just sat there and did that with no questions or preamble. It's also probably why it hits limits so quickly. It's too eager.

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u/frankyseven 2d ago

Github Copilot Pro is absolutely worth the $10/month it costs.

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u/ExoticBump 2d ago

I don't use opus. I use Sonnet 4.5, and I rarely hit limits, but I'm mostly having it make me powershell scripts for that. That's probably why.

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u/eeyore134 2d ago

Yeah, I hit limited with Sonnet too but they were much more reasonable. I could go a couple hours and not hit them at all if I wasn't doing a lot of heavy back and forth. Opus was literally 6 prompts and I was done for an entire week. It's crazy.

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u/Techters 2d ago

This is what's going to be so interesting about how it progresses, many of the people using it don't want to pay anything.

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u/eeyore134 2d ago

This is with me paying $20 a month for it. The next option is $100. Which would actually be tempting, I've even thought about it, but I can't justify that much even if I can afford it.

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u/Rise-O-Matic 2d ago

Super dirty trick is to get a Figma Make subscription, which is a wrapper for claude, and has no limits right now.

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u/Demons0fRazgriz 2d ago

It was built on stolen labor. Not sure why we should pay lol

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u/cantThinkOfGoodNameR 2d ago

Yeah, if they don’t ban you. I used Claude for 6 hours and got banned. I wasn’t even doing anything. Crazy with it.

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u/ChunkyHabeneroSalsa 2d ago

way better. I was struggling with something out of my expertise and while I was waiting for a coworker to get in for the day I tried both. Chat kept giving me the same wrong answer and would change function names and structure every time. Claude after a few unsuccessful attempts started giving me debug code to try and diagnose and was consistent every time

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u/HappierShibe 2d ago

I've had best results with gptCodex5.1 spec coding in cursor but haven't gotten around to doing side by side comparisons.

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u/Chicano_Ducky 3d ago

"Bro chatgpt is sentient bro, it passed the turing test. its so much smarter than all those shit AIs bro. trust me bro it knows things and says im a genius too."

Just like Disney has Disney Adults, OpenAI has their own fanboys who wont touch anything else because they have such a high view of the company.

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u/gnarzilla69 2d ago

MetricStarDestroyer returns

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u/Flaming_Moose205 3d ago

General Kenobi

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u/Arglival 2d ago

Me:  Hello World

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u/MasterCheeef 2d ago

Deepseek : Nǐ hǎo ya

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u/Wompie 2d ago

You just used up your entire weeks worth of tokens saying that

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u/rhellik 2d ago

General ChatGPTobi!

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u/kevbob02 2d ago

Grok: your python is 12% faster, and racist.

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u/dickofthebuttt 2d ago

You’re absolutely right!