Chat GPT is useless this week. Anyone else having issues?
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I use Chat GPT once or twice per week for architectural/landscaping reasons. I upload photos and tell it to add a house to a plot, or restyle a house, or add certain landscaping to a garden etc, but it is absolutely useless this week, and I haven't managed to get anything from it at all, despite leaving the desktop website open for hours following a request, and even trying the same on my phone app.
Nothing. Just the 'Our servers are under heavy load and working on it' type holding pattern.
Sometimes it has come back with a blank/missing picture and when I have replied saying there is nothing there, it apologises and says it will 'try again' and then fails to do anything.
Is it just massively overloaded these days?
Nothing. Just the 'Our servers are under heavy load and working on it' type holding pattern.
Sometimes it has come back with a blank/missing picture and when I have replied saying there is nothing there, it apologises and says it will 'try again' and then fails to do anything.
Is it just massively overloaded these days?
I'm a researcher and analyst - ChatGPT and alike have changed my work significantly. Use it for 2-3 hours a day sometimes - great for collecting background information, summarising huge documents, finding comparable content etc.
I've seen a few issues where some tools are not available for short periods of time over the last few weeks.
I've a paid account - and sometimes deep research has not been available for a few hours that day, but it gets queued and then completes later (app notifies you when complete.)
Tried CoPilot as we have it through work - too many occasions where it does something wrong - none of them are perfect - i'd say i trust them 80% of the time overall, but CoPilot for me and my work made more mistakes than CGPT.
I've seen a few issues where some tools are not available for short periods of time over the last few weeks.
I've a paid account - and sometimes deep research has not been available for a few hours that day, but it gets queued and then completes later (app notifies you when complete.)
Tried CoPilot as we have it through work - too many occasions where it does something wrong - none of them are perfect - i'd say i trust them 80% of the time overall, but CoPilot for me and my work made more mistakes than CGPT.
this month i've somehow ended up with 3 paid subscriptions, chatgpt, grok and perplexity, so I've occasionally run all 3 side by side with certain queries. I paid for a month of grok because of its ability to check out live websites to find information, and it will look for public access information actively for you, whereas chatgpt just points you in the vague direction with links that never seem to work.
The one i've been surprised with is perplexity, I'd written it off as a newspaper aggregating AI and hadnt really used it because I'd got it bundled with my revolut card, but its been great.
For anyone considering signing up for grok, do it on a web browser first, it will offer a huge discount, then open it in the app. I took it at £30/month in the app for 1 month and obviously cant get that offer any more. If I could I'd probably take it for the year and have it side by side with chatgpt, but paying full rack rate which is more then chatgpt is more then i need.
I've had a couple of small outages with chatgpt, and a few more with Grok, so I guess they're all doing it from time to time. I believe gpt 5 is out soon which should be interesting, since I rarely know if I should change gpts for various tasks, this is apparently an all in one. Hopefully you dont have to change projects etc and they'll just follow over.
The one i've been surprised with is perplexity, I'd written it off as a newspaper aggregating AI and hadnt really used it because I'd got it bundled with my revolut card, but its been great.
For anyone considering signing up for grok, do it on a web browser first, it will offer a huge discount, then open it in the app. I took it at £30/month in the app for 1 month and obviously cant get that offer any more. If I could I'd probably take it for the year and have it side by side with chatgpt, but paying full rack rate which is more then chatgpt is more then i need.
I've had a couple of small outages with chatgpt, and a few more with Grok, so I guess they're all doing it from time to time. I believe gpt 5 is out soon which should be interesting, since I rarely know if I should change gpts for various tasks, this is apparently an all in one. Hopefully you dont have to change projects etc and they'll just follow over.
sly fox said:
I'm a researcher and analyst - ChatGPT and alike have changed my work significantly. Use it for 2-3 hours a day sometimes - great for collecting background information, summarising huge documents, finding comparable content etc.
I've seen a few issues where some tools are not available for short periods of time over the last few weeks.
I've a paid account - and sometimes deep research has not been available for a few hours that day, but it gets queued and then completes later (app notifies you when complete.)
Tried CoPilot as we have it through work - too many occasions where it does something wrong - none of them are perfect - i'd say i trust them 80% of the time overall, but CoPilot for me and my work made more mistakes than CGPT.
Copilot is just chatgpt with some security on top, basically chatgpt with more guardrails! Copilot comes into its own if you have a copilot licence and its connected with work data. You can ask it to summarise your week, pull together documents ect.I've seen a few issues where some tools are not available for short periods of time over the last few weeks.
I've a paid account - and sometimes deep research has not been available for a few hours that day, but it gets queued and then completes later (app notifies you when complete.)
Tried CoPilot as we have it through work - too many occasions where it does something wrong - none of them are perfect - i'd say i trust them 80% of the time overall, but CoPilot for me and my work made more mistakes than CGPT.
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