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Re:Microsoft Bing Search, Copilot face downtime by Aaargh20318 on Thursday May 23, 2024 @05:56AM (#40452686)
One of the interesting things about this downtime is that it has highlighted how many 'alternative' search engines are really just a front-end for Bing.
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Re:Microsoft Bing Search, Copilot face downtime by dewaldr on Thursday May 23, 2024 @06:21AM (#40452856)
Wait until the ChatGPT API goes down one day and see how just about all startups from the last 12 months are just wrappers.
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Re:Microsoft Bing Search, Copilot face downtime by eskibars on Thursday May 23, 2024 @07:25AM (#40453311)
You don't need to look hard to find this happen. OpenAI has had several API outages this year
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Re:Microsoft Bing Search, Copilot face downtime by beretguy on Thursday May 23, 2024 @06:14AM (#40452806)
Not sure why your text is grey. I mean, yeah, “Dependency” xkcd exists for a reason: https://xkcd.com/2347/

Except that in this case instead of a “random person in Nebraska” we have a multi billion dollar corporation.

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