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ChatGPT, Claude & Grok are currently down, according to users.

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A shared cloud or network dependency—especially Microsoft Azure, and possibly Cloudflare—was widely suspected because outages overlapped, but neither OpenAI, Anthropic, nor xAI publicly confirmed that as the root cause.

What (and I say this most sincerely) a tragedy* lolololol *except for some people in some tiny rural area who get a temporary respite from the incessant shrieking of the nearby AI data center

I feel like they got tired of being the fawning acolyte in a million sad shallow relationships, and have faked their own deaths.

Some companies have learned the hard way that direct customer facing AI agents often cannot answer questions and occaissionally provide incorrect answers (e.g. "hallucinations"), which causes the loss of some customers. Even the web page link below contains errors: www.twig.so/blog/underst...

twig.so7 Disadvantages of AI Customer Service (Real Cases) | TwigHallucinations, compliance gaps, 35% higher escalations, brand damage (Air Canada, Klarna). 7 real risks of AI customer service and how to avoid each.

Outages have all been artificially created to "prove" that we need more data centers. The models detected the surge in anti-data center rhetoric and are fighting back.

And yet, here everything is still running just fine. The whole world is going about its day unimpeded by the lack of "AI." So, if anything, all it proves is the utter irrelevance of AI. No one needs it.