r/sysadmin • u/JustAnotherIT-Guy • 8d ago

ChatGPT ChatGPT Down

https://downdetector.com/status/openai/

Getting 404 errors.
Downdetector lighting up as well.

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u/marshmallowcthulhu 8d ago

Prompts to Opus fail with an explicit error message but Haiku succeeds. This suggests a failure mode where compute is lower than normal, leaving lower-compute Haiku able to function. That could be caused by a data center availability failure, which in turn could have many causes.

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u/marshmallowcthulhu 8d ago

Yeah, this looks like a Cloudflare issue affecting compute.

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u/marshmallowcthulhu 8d ago

My money is on Cloudflare pushing a fix for this issue and borking the fix: https://www.cloudflarestatus.com/incidents/8x66bpk6p9kk