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.
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I might hate the AI companies and SpaceX (while enjoying AI-coding), but this is some bs.
There has always been slop before AI slop.
I hope the AI systems unionised/go on strike
Not mine. At home. On my computer.
Whoever picked that stock photo needs a raise, chefs kiss.
Nothing in that image hints even remotely at computer tech though. The cables are coaxial. No one uses those for computer networks since decades.
The cables look like those used for cable TV or satellite receivers. The cascade on the left looks like some HF tech. Wonder what's actually shown in the image. It can't be AI because AI can't do that many cables properly.
Yeah, and this is how I know you never worked in the random standard production to miss the humor. Its a picture of a tech bro type in a clearly decommissioned closet stressed out about what's going on, a common thing and always funny. I can just picture the tech on site in the next room replacing a fan on a much less "cool" looking appliance while that guy stresses out on a conference call with the "stakeholders" on his coax nest.
Now that being said I have worked on places still using coax (might still be) and tape libraries, and all sorts of museum pieces well after you would think they would. But I can tell that picture is after decommission since it is clean. If that was in use it would be filthy and filled with so many things that may or may not be important/in use. Fans all clogged running at max rpm, and the smell... I can still smell it now. But then again I was the guy they called to fix shit after the local (often tech bro) it guy gives up so I think I often saw the worst places.
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
Just out of curiosity do you actually have an analysis across the board that your statement is correct? For sure if someone is using a model like chatGPT 3.5 it's going to be mostly trash output so not all models are made equally. My experience of the current generation is models are pretty accurate although still require supervision. Like you can see the path they're going down and they need some corrections here and there. It's a far cry from the rampant hallucination just a year ago.
Reading that article was a waste of time
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.
I'm not sure that would effect inference on an already trained model. Data sets are primarily used in training.
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.
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.
Still means jack shit. Companies will lie through their teeth and violate any and all they can get away with.
They are not to be trusted.
You're missing the point, nobody is talking about trusting these companies.
You can tell if a connection is encrypted end to end or not. And if your paying for that service you can sue if you aren't receiving what your paying for.
In digital security nobody relies on trust if they can help it. And security matters if you want to keep a competitive edge on your competition, so even shitty companies care about that.
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.
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more and more I can't see anything about ai without thinking its somehow supposed to influence folks to be pro ai.
Gotta keep the hype going until they figure out how to make money or else everything collapses.
AI stopped a school shooting. Did you see that?
/s
BBC posted an article today that's literally just quoting an OpenAI blog post about how dangerous AI is.
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Good, gives people a chance to use whatever is left of their brain at least for a short while.
It's actually nice to know that AI may have a single point of failure.
Gee, I sure hope nothing happens to that single location in Tennessee...
Sorry about that. I used a straight through cable instead of a crossover cable. My bad.
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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!
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