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    jimmy@feddit.org to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish ·
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    Massive internet outage reported: Google services, Cloudflare, Character.AI among dozens of services impacted

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    Massive internet outage reported: Google services, Cloudflare, Character.AI among dozens of services impacted

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    jimmy@feddit.org to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish ·
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    Massive internet outage: Google services, Cloudflare, Spotify all down, users report
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    Users are reporting widespread errors at popular apps and websites.

    Archive of cloudflare status

    Google status

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      Character.ai being mentioned in the same line is a sign of the times.

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        The people yearn for the digital anime waifus

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          If you’re not running your waifu on a local machine she’s just a digital prostitute.

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            The one downvote on this comment makes it like 20x funnier

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          When you stop using a search engine and use AI-generated responses for everything, I guess having your LLM backends go down could qualify as having a disruptive functional impact.

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            26 days ago

            A disruption to disfunctional search engines does not sound bad.

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        Well, the actual headline is:

        Massive internet outage: Google services, Cloudflare, Spotify all down, users report

        Character.ai is only mentioned in the lengthy list of services that are down.

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          Massive internet outage reported: Google, Cloudflare, Twitch all down

          It even swapped in Twitch when I read it at the time. Headlines be changing.

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            And when I went there, it said Google, Cloudflare, and Frank’s Dildo Emporium all down, like of all the random sites, why pick FDE?

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              Oh shit, a fellow FDE-head in the wild… What do you think of the latest Bad Dragons they just got in? I got one for 50% off, and it was only slightly used by Frank.

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              26 days ago

              Ai? Or a catch headline

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                It’s a joke. I don’t think there’s really a website called Frank’s Dildo Emporium. But if there is, lmk.

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                  You could just google it-

                  oh wait

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          Still a very important service for many people who are alone.😢

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            Self host your desperation.

            https://huggingface.co/Sao10K/L3-8B-Stheno-v3.2

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        What is character.ai? Have I been living under a stone? When I visit the page I have to log in just to learn what it is?

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          It’s LLMs for ERP

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            … What’s ERP? Or don’t I want to know?

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              I put on my robe and wizard hat

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                Is that a bash reference? Jesus im old

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              Enterprise resource planning

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                Erotic resource planning

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                That’s how I read it too at first- and as bad as ‘erotic role play’ with a LLM chatbot sounds, the other one is so much horribly worse.

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                  Actually RP and by proxy ERP is basically a perfect fit for what LLM are good at.

                  Good RP is basically nothing but improv and rolling with a functional scenario no matter how weird it gets. Which LLM are fantastic at doing.

                  You arnt worried about accuracy or memory after all. Just that it can string together coherent English and play pretend with you. Literally the ideal use case for a LLM.

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              My front-line guess is “Erotic Role Play” but I am not familiar with character.ai

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                I had guessed the nature of the site and “roleplay.” It is a tad silly on my part to not have guessed “erotic”; thanks for getting me there (and not in an erotic way).

                edit: Had left out the word “there.”

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