On: Claude is unavailable for some users. Web and Mobile.

[gmaster1440]

A coordinated DDoS effort against popular AI front-ends seems like the most likely explanation.

[geor9e → gmaster1440]

Hanlon's razor: (A) An unimaginably large coordination to attack the most computing power on earth temporarily out of unspecified malice (B) It's finals week and a cascading tidal wave of millions of kids are texting each other that chatgpt is down and they need an alternative

[gmaster1440 → geor9e]

perhaps, but it doesn't offer an explanation for why chatgpt.com is down for this long.

[ethbr1 → gmaster1440]

Because they also had an incident overnight, and the resolution caused some cascading issues?

https://status.openai.com/incidents/rs49lmsh6xxw

[ethbr1 → gmaster1440]

Or they started querying each other. :)

[diggan → ethbr1]

2024-06-04 12:32 - Perplexity enabled a feature that double-checks responses with Claude

2024-06-04 13:51 - ChatGPT enabled a feature that double-checks responses with Perplexity

2024-06-04 15:04 - Claude enabled a feature that double-checks responses with ChatGPT

2024-06-04 17:42 - The internet ran out of bandwidth as LLMs starts going around in infinitive loops, double-checking double-checked answers

[Bluestein → gmaster1440]

Indeed. But ...

... by whom?

(Cue spooky music)

[Atotalnoob → Bluestein]

The api call is coming from inside the server!