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Re:March 20 ChatGPT outage: Here’s what happened by killerstorm on Friday March 24, 2023 @02:14PM (#35293303)
OpenAI uses redis to store pieces of text. Fetching pieces of text is not computationally intensive.
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Re:March 20 ChatGPT outage: Here’s what happened by mannyv on Friday March 24, 2023 @04:35PM (#35295065)
Most likely they have them in an rdbms, so it's more like joining a forum thread together. Not expensive, but why not prebuild and store it instead?
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