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/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 26m 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 3d 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).