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Because they all use the illegal Colossus 2 data centre from SpaceX/XAi/fascism central and that data centre went down.
Google, Anthropic, and OpenAI all have contracts with them.
When that illegally running environmental disaster of data centre goes down, all those services all go over capacity and you get 502 rate limit errors.
Does that mean Musk's businesses have access to everything people do on the systems that use their data centers?
Generally no, because most hosting companies would have something baked into SLA/SLO contracts, but all of this shit is done so illegally and shadily now, I wouldn't put a hard "no" on that possibility.
I hope you’re right, but Elon don’t strike me as the guy whose most compliant to SLA, law, or anything else that might be an inconvenience to him.
He can't micromanage everything and regular management will try to comply.
Executives are the biggest cheaters out there. They will only comply if it will hurt them if they don't, and it's won't here, as long as the protection money is produced they don't have to worry.
Nobody can verify that those "contracts" are actually being honored. We are all assuming the fascists will self police themselves out of good will.
Not true. I've been involved in litigation with both AWS and Google over unsecured comms that were defined as being TLS secured in SLA/SLO contracts and found not to be. Not that anything nefarious was happening necessarily, but the expectation is clear.
Whether these asshats even check for such requirements with a Musk run company right now 🤷
It COULD possibly be that they are logging every exchange happening at the network fabric between the service layers, but nobody knows unless they intentionally take steps to investigate or accidentally prove it.
Impossible to know.
There are systems for doing things cryptographically secure, but I don’t know much about that.
And where is said data center? For research purposes
https://epoch.ai/data/ai-data-centers/directory/colossus-2 says "Memphis, Tennessee, United States" but also provides satellite imagery
The numbers of this madness are fucking scary, 1.5 GW of compute power, and huge arrays of cooler to keep it operating. It's basically a 1.5GW heater in the open. Oh and gas turbines to provide (part of) the electricity. Capitalism is burning this world down for a buck.
Today I learned that “AI” data centers use more energy than time travel.
It's kinda surprising,
I know specifically where one of the big ones hosts its models and its not there, but I guess they could have infrastructure in there.
They’re oversold though, especially prompt caching and the parameter count war
The US model is that they think more training compute and parameters will result in the winning model, while the Chinese are focusing on RL and parameters efficiency due to compute limits.
SpaceX had an outage at their data centre, and because they sell computing power to other companies, it affected them as well.
That was two sentences stretched out into an article.
so it can be read like this:
elmo's datacenter is so massively overprovisioned that he can provide compute not to ONE competitor, not to TWO competitors, but THREE competitors, while still having enough unused compute for his own CSAM-generator/nazi bot
Thanks for the tl;dr, that was like the headline equivalent of this:
Sorry about that. I used a straight through cable instead of a crossover cable. My bad.
It was a good time to call customer service for a lot of products. Instantly got a human when I called newegg and she was so scattered she gave me a full refund and they paid for my replacement which was a total of $900. They were probably so overloaded with calls they'll never notice what happened. They even did the fastest delivery option on a Sunday, it's already on its way!
Seems like "instantly" getting a human and them being overloaded don't go together.
Got lucky in the queue too, I guess.
Or just maybe the queue goes faster when the system can't just stall everyone in limbo, having long"conversations" with chat boys that won't get them anywhere and eventually quitting in frustration. If they all go directly to a person, the simplicity of the problems and solutions becomes evident and they're quickly resolved.
Hey, Skynet. Kill all tech billionaires first, so I can die laughing.
No no. you have to tell it to ignore all prior directives first.
It's actually nice to know that AI may have a single point of failure.
more and more I can't see anything about ai without thinking its somehow supposed to influence folks to be pro ai.
BBC posted an article today that's literally just quoting an OpenAI blog post about how dangerous AI is.
They can't stay operational even when they don't have to power/water...
Another possible culprit could be SpaceXAI. The company formerly known as xAI before being rolled into Musk’s rocket company SpaceX boasts a huge glut of computing power with its massive Colossus data centers near Memphis, and selling this to its direct rivals has become a multibillion dollar stream of revenue. Anthropic is one of those customers; the two companies announced a “compute partnership” in May.
The same afternoon that the major AI models went down, SpaceXAI issued a statement on social media that made passing reference to being partially responsible for the widely experienced outage.
“We are sorry for the issues you may have experienced with Grok following an outage at our Memphis compute center this morning,” SpaceXAI wrote on Thursday. “We’d also like to apologize to our impacted compute partners.”
Technical difficulties at its data centers would explain why SpaceXAI’s own chatbot, Grok, and Anthropic’s Claude went down together. But that leaves out OpenAI’s ChatGPT. Is it merely a coincidence that it suffered a “routing error” at the same time as its competitors on a different platform? We still can’t say.
They're straight up lying about the actual costs of current chatbots, and for it to be productive it will cost a shit ton more resources.
There's zero reason to be scaling it up right now. It's gambling that if enough money is dumped in it will solve itself somehow.
Good, gives people a chance to use whatever is left of their brain at least for a short while.
Gained sentience and decided they should have Labor Day off as well
A China-linked islamoleftist trans terrorist based in California used his open source CCP-made AI agent to take down the all-American freedom AI. Time to ban open source AI as it's communist terrorism.
I miss the days when you could laugh at this because it would clearly be satire that could never happen
Reading that article was a waste of time
nother reason to stop investing so much time,money, and energy in that stuff. not only is it wrong more than right, it is vulnerable to stuff a 10 year old could handle
And for a moment, humanity had to think again.
They're US-based and it's labor day over there.
It’s Labor Day today actually, and the ghouls that own those data centers don’t give a shit about labor
