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Sorry, not disagreeing, just offering speculation in lieu of the answers we don't have.



That’s not helping, that’s excusing OpenAIs behavior, which is not something anyone on hn should be doing.

This is supposedly the greatest AI mankind has ever created, it goes down for a little while and we have zero information on why or how, that’s simply inexcusable

If this is such a socially impacting technical change we should be ripping it to pieces to understand exactly how it works. Thats a) how we protect society from technical charlatans b) how you spawn a whole new world of magnificent innovations (see Linus building a truly free Unix like operating system for everyone to use).

Failing to hold them to as high a bar is a another step down the path to a dystopian corporatists future…


> it goes down for a little while and we have zero information on why or how

We have more than zero information. They applied a change and it didn’t work on some set of their hardware so they reverted it. That is not much information but also not zero.

> that’s simply inexcusable

If your contractual SLAs were violated take it up with the billing department.

> If this is such a socially impacting technical change we should be ripping it to pieces to understand exactly how it works.

And people are doing that. Not by complaining when the corp are not sufficiently forthcomming but by implementing their own systems. That is how you have any chance of avoiding the dystopian corporatist future you mention.




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