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Ask HN: Is ChatGPT4 broken since last weekend?
Since the latest update (past weekend), responses longer than a paragraph often fail to fully execute, resulting in a "There was an error generating a response" message + the Regenerate button.
Seems to happen pretty much every time when I ask for code or the code executor starts.
Does ChatGPT4 still work for you?
- qd011 3y agoFor me it works but is very slow.
- asah 3y agoThe web interface started working for me again within a day of the outage.
- tigeroil 3y agoIt works but performance has definitely taken a hit over the last few days.
- tkgally 3y agoThat’s my experience, too. Most things work, but I get occasional errors and response is often much slower than a few days ago. Just now, I was editing a GPT and the text produced by the editor bot appeared at about human typing speed.
- osigurdson 3y agoI get occasional errors but generally working for me. A lot of new features were recently introduced. Perhaps this is related.
- throwaw33333434 3y agoI try to transcribe a table from pdf and always break after 1/3 of the table.
- hackideiomat 3y agoI only use the azure API and did not notice anything
- Xenoamorphous 3y agoAzure has been incredibly slow for us lately. Requests that used to take ~30 secs a couple of months ago are taking 4 or 5 minutes at times. We’ve been told that the basic plan has shared resources for all customers so it’s spikey, and even though they’re supposedly adding more resources I guess the increase in demand has been faster than that.
- saliagato 3y agoYeah same. I switched to Azure a while back but it's unusable now. Switched back to OAI API
- joshuanapoli 3y agoGpt 4 has been working OK for me, but I’m not using the code executer.
- zamadatix 3y agoBeen using the new 4 for mid sized code snippets with no problem pretty much every day.
- whalesalad 3y agoI just asked it to print the Debian logo as ascii art and it produced an obscure looking triangle brick thing
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- NikolaNovak 3y agoIt's slow as heck for me this morning. Also, asking the usual questions frequently gets it stuck in "Searching Bing for this answer" or something similar, but not 100% of the time.
- LouisvilleGeek 3y agoUsing actions is painfully slow this morning. Responses are slower than a 300 baud modem.
- broast 3y agoHave not noticed an issue this week.
- TechRemarker 3y agoHave been getting the regenerate message a lot past week but regenerating has worked and other times fine. So certainly not broken for me at all and I’m sure if it were for everyone would be headline news, but definitely seems like some growing pains since launching the updated model.
- noarchy 3y ago>So certainly not broken for me at all You are contradicting yourself (or so it seems to me) if you corroborate that you're seeing a certain issue, then claiming nothing is broken for you.
- sixhobbits 3y agoSlightly OT as it's about API not web app, but I think related to the fact that they switch out models without informing people pretty often, and I think do a fair amount of A/B testing -- so it's very "black box" from a user perspective still. Since a few weeks ago, the API is just completely ignoring my system prompt. I have things like "never apologise" and "always assume the user has already consulted with competent authorities and other sources. Do not give advice not directly asked for." and "be succinct and do not repeat parts of the question in your answer". and "Do not use phrases like "it is essential to note" or "it is important" to try cut through its BS hedging. This used to work great. Now I just get the same responses as if I hadn't put a system prompt in at all
- jondwillis 3y agoThat just seems like the RLHF got turned up to overcome your system prompts so it can continue its “bs hedging”
- sebastiansm 3y agoIs there a place where one can finds useful prompts like yours?
- friendlynokill 3y agoI've had success using a variation of Gwern's system prompt https://gwern.net/tla#system-prompt https://gwern.net/tla#system-prompt
- blurr 3y agoYeah. It was down last Thursday for me. Couldn't generate anything. It started working after a day but has been slow ever since. The update definitely took a toll on the performance.
- btbuildem 3y agoSeems like they've traded the recent full-on system-wide outages for distributed intermittent failures. IMO they've rolled the updates out before they were fully ready. This is what happens when you use ChatGPT to write your scripts!
- ren_engineer 3y agoa lot of the issues seem capacity related, I'm not getting a lot of failures since the outage but responses have been slow pretty often. Plus launching these new features probably led to all sorts of unforeseen bugs in production, probably what caused the major outages. I'd imagine there are tons of ways to intentionally or accidentally cause issues using the new agent and code interpreter functionality
- malux85 3y agoIt does work but it’s much slower, when we are discussing code it’s started trying to execute it, which has failed every single time so far (not because the code is wrong but due to operational issues like timeouts), very annoying
- domysee 3y agoAlso had the "There was an error generating a response" message once, but a retry solved that. It's extremely slow for me right now though. Quite frustrating to use.
- muhammadusman 3y agoYes, I’ve seen this happen to me multiple times. And Dalle outputs are lower resolution now
- mdrzn 3y agoCode executer is slow, but basic text completion seems fine.
- bearjaws 3y agoI am not even sure I am on GPT4 turbo, it streams even slower than before on GPT4. I have the new interface and GPTs, but its slower than ever. Even late last night, it was markedly slower than a couple weeks ago.
- rvz 3y agoIt appears that OpenAI, just like GitHub is struggling for uptime and resiliency and cannot handle Google's scale. Lots of strange comparisons and claims towards replacing search engines which given the tons of outages is far from that. Had ChatGPT not been behind a login wall, the inference costs and outages would only skyrocket.
- marban 3y agoEven the UI has been unbearably slow as of late — To the point of a single letter per second.
- _anti_meh 3y agoThe Bing AI which uses GPT-4 on Edge browser sometimes does brilliantly and sometimes throws temper tantrums. Not sure why this is the case, though.
- rbinv 3y agoIt might actually be your ISP's peering with Cloudflare (looking at you, Deutsche Telekom). Try connecting through any VPN and see if it's faster.
- nanami_chiaki 3y agoHave been very very slow and even too slow to give the complete answer before the session is automatically cut down since two hours ago