Centralization be like:
this post was submitted on 03 Dec 2025
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Clanker down!! (i don't have the image here so)
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.
"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
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.
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.
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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
And the oceans stopped boiling..... Just for a while
Nearly classic these days, since it's a wrap for most colleges next week.
But I need this to cheat on my tests! What am I going to do now study?
Nice.
SELL SELL SELL ! ! !
Good
Ding! Dong!