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ChatGPT is down worldwide, conversations disappeared for users (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
submitted 9 months ago by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] 36 points 9 months ago (6 children)

Tinfoil hat moment: Altman panicked with all the money hemorrhaging and is trying new inventive ways to get money from the paid subscribers whilst drastically reducing operation costs. He pulled the plug for a bit.

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  • [–] 13 points 9 months ago

    "controlled blackouts"

    Seriously though, why wouldn't that asshole try something like that? Soon enough it's gonna be a subscription-only service or you'll have to start "paying" in compute somehow and you'll get like 2400-baud chatgpt that'll take like 3 days to complete a request, lol

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  • [–] 10 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    If we want a conspiracy theory, let us go for real:

    he wants users to taste the feeling of not having access, then offering premium to 'stop living in fear of losing gpt'.

    Oh and free tier will be gone soon^tm

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  • [–] 9 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    Then, he is a fool. LLM technology has no fence around it. You can download and run one on your own hardware. The only reason a person would use their service is convenience access to a larger model.

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