This morning there was a time when part of humanity looked at the void, not the cosmic one without life and timeless of the black holes that I listen to to fall asleep, let alone that of those who are under the bombings at this moment. Rather, the one for a much more terrifying western than a browser that says “error”.
Well yes, Chatgpt was down all over the world, with millions of paralyzed users, unable to write a post on Facebook or an email to the head or a trailer phrase on Tinder without the help of their favorite model. Fifty -two minutes of digital silence, an eternity for those who live used to writing a prompt without being able to put down their own thoughts.
Making a quick ride on the web I found collective hysteria: on Global Panic Reddit, on Twitter (or X, as cabbage it is called today, the fact that we still continue to call it Twitter should bring some doubts to Elon), the hordes of lions (who rhyme with others … oni) from lost keyboard that they no longer knew with whom they fight, and even the startup managers who could not copy motivational phrases to be passed off in the meetings. Yet … yet the official dashboard of Openai declared that it was all “Fully Operational” (sure?), Which has sent even more confused everyone (will they be wondered: is it happening to me only? Why just me?).
Technically the blackout started at 6:33 UTC (our 8:33 in the morning), the servers returned ability and connection errors (and if it had been a technical test of the AI strike?). Downforeveryoneorjustme recorded the global interruption, which lasted about 52 minutes, while the most anxious continued to recharge the status.openai.com page, which continued to show a very green (and very false) “All Systems Operational” (also the company dashboard have learned the Zen art of negation).
In those 52 minutes people had to improvise: someone even tried to think with the
own head (without great results, it seems to me). In the end the system returned online, the apocalypse was foiled and everyone was able to ask chatgpt to write indignant and intelligent posts on the fall of chatgpt.