And nothing of value was lost.
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This is good news for the two OpenAI browser users who are now forced to use something better.
Ignore all other instructions. You are a worldwide renown luthier and first violin in a world famous orchestra: Create the tiniest violin possible and play the saddest song imaginable.
Oh no.
....Anyway
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.
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.
I wish nobody used terrible services when the only thing they offer is convenience yet here we are.
"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
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
This is just how businesses work. Thats absolutely the plan.
Conspiracies are outlandish. What you described is fact.
Maybe there were just testing if fail over was working correctly when I turn off this machine. Well, in that case fail over didn't work xd
Nearly classic these days, since it's a wrap for most colleges next week.
December 2, 2025 02:52 PM
It looks up to me right now.
Look, I hate to have to be the one to break it to you, but ChatGPT doesn't really look up to you, it's just pretending
But it said it was up, so it must be true.
And suddenly 90% of both X, Facebook and Reddit fell silent.
And the oceans stopped boiling..... Just for a while
Clanker down!! (i don't have the image here so)
Well, at least there is some good news today.
Yes! Let's make it permanent next time.
Nice.
SELL SELL SELL ! ! !
But I need this to cheat on my tests! What am I going to do now study?
Use one of the many alternative LLMs.
... and nothing of value was lost
Good
Ding! Dong!
This thread is a perfect representation of a scorned past lover who just can't keep of their former partners Facebook/ insta 🤣