On: ChatGPT is down

[steve_adams_86]

Can you provide a source confirming that's the cause of the outage? The timing is suspicious and I suspected it's related, but I wouldn't claim it's the sole cause without confirmation.

[galaxytachyon → steve_adams_86]

I believe if you check the activity history, you will see a massive spike of request coming from China around the time the service went down.

Doubt we will have anything official though. Cyberwars are often fought in the shadow.

[runnerup → galaxytachyon]

> if you check the activity history, you will see a massive spike of request coming from China

Have you ever seen an activity history from OpenAI or is this your imagined hypothesis?

[singularity2001 → galaxytachyon]

where can you see the activity history with location data? (Sorry for asking you since my other assistant isn't available.)

[lhl → singularity2001]

I saw this being posted, but that's not very definitive and it's not clear if the traffic is an attack or not: https://www.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/comments/11wqscn/china_is_c...

[runnerup → lhl]

If this was related to the outage, it would specifically be evidence that it’s not an “attack”. Government hackers wouldn’t DoS a website by “googling it to death”. That would be nonsensical.

So, this points to potentially just a quick doubling of traffic from some fraction of half a billion people in China.