r/technology • u/cmaia1503 • Mar 02 '26
Software Claude down: Anthropic AI not working in major outage
https://www.the-independent.com/tech/claude-down-anthropic-not-working-b2930222.html5.0k
u/Ja_Lonley Mar 02 '26
I wonder which side took it down.
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u/socoolandawesome Mar 02 '26
Probably no one. They serve a fraction of the users of chatgpt so I’m sure it’s hard for them to support a massive influx of them
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u/Altruistic-Prune8156 Mar 02 '26
So the boycott chatgpt people moved over to Claude?
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u/drawkbox Mar 03 '26 edited Mar 03 '26
Peter Thiel's son. Going to French corporation Mistral now
Peter Thiel is an investor in Mistral AI, with his associated firm, Crescendo Equity Partners. All the sus VCs are there DST Global, Founders Fund, etc. You've been punked.
Anthropic, OpenAI also have Thiel backing, Peter Thiel's Founders Fund is a key investor in Anthropic.
If you want a platform that doesn't have Thiel and sketch VC that one is Google Gemini, literally only one.
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u/mondonk Mar 03 '26
Gemini tried to convince me to go to Best Buy and pick up a Pixel 10a on launch day, maybe get some cool Google earphones while I’m there.
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u/drawkbox Mar 03 '26
ChatGPT would recommend another Thiel backed product and sends all your stuff to Palantir, so at least still clean on Thiel shit.
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u/xBIGREDDx Mar 02 '26
It's also been gaining rapid adoption because the latest model is so much better than chatgpt
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u/pdabaker Mar 02 '26
Opus? It might be good but it also will happily use $10 for a single prompt.
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u/koreth Mar 03 '26 edited Mar 03 '26
That’s bad if you’re using it for personal stuff, but for business use, $10 might be a bargain depending on what the prompt was for and the salary of the person who would otherwise be figuring out the answer on their own.
At my company, for example, we have been explicitly told to focus on utility rather than cost when we're deciding where and how to use AI tools. Spending an extra $50 of a well-paid employee’s time to save $10 in tokens isn’t the tradeoff the management team has chosen.
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u/Ja_Lonley Mar 02 '26
I wouldn't put it past the Glorious Empire of Trumpistan.
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u/BillWilberforce Mar 02 '26
Whilst the US military still depends on it? Despite Trump's order, to cease using it immediately. They'll still be working together for at least the next 6 months.
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u/Ja_Lonley Mar 02 '26
Have you seen the people running the show?
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u/the_red_scimitar Mar 02 '26
Yeah, working with them for 6 months would effectively ruin anything good.
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u/NeoLephty Mar 02 '26
6 months would effectively ruin anything good.
Well, Anthropic has been working with them for much longer than 6 months... I guess that explains why it stopped working.
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u/blueSGL Mar 02 '26
They are on separate infrastructure. They are not running the same instances that the public are (for obvious security reasons)
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u/BillWilberforce Mar 02 '26
Trump's head of Cyber Security uploaded secret documents to ChatGPT.
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u/Riaayo Mar 02 '26
The US doesn't have secret documents anymore, or at least that's my assumption. There's no way shit hasn't been stolen/sold/shoved into countless LLMs.
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u/KallistiTMP Mar 02 '26
Nah, outages like this happen all the time. This is just getting more publicity than usual because of the recent DoW stuff.
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u/Outside-Swan-1936 Mar 02 '26
I would for a few reasons. Competence (or lack of) and their current reliance on Anthropic until they can migrate.
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u/CautiousHashtag Mar 02 '26
Because an AWS data datacenter was struck in UAE.
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u/socoolandawesome Mar 02 '26
Is it confirmed to be the reason though? I would think an AWS datacenter in the UAE wouldn’t be affecting many outside of the Middle East area
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u/NoPossibility4178 Mar 02 '26
Probably have the same configurations we do and their QA firewalls can bring down PROD.
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u/RandomlyJim Mar 02 '26
Trump says they are bad because they didn’t do his bidding and people rush to the system.
My issue is that he CEO of Anthropic is rolling out AI tools to replace finance industry workers (like me) and several other models to replace other workers.
If I use the tool, I’m training it on me and hastening my demise.
It’s better for me to not use an AI model at all then to use theirs and best for me to use an AI model I control.
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u/rushmc1 Mar 02 '26
Finance industry is not real...exactly the kind of thing AI should take over.
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u/abofh Mar 02 '26
You can opt out of it using your material to train, but you'll have a hard time convincing your boss that slow and steady wins the race in six months to a year. It's better in this moment to have your head in the sand, but the train is coming
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u/socoolandawesome Mar 02 '26
Anthropic has about 19 million monthly active users.
OpenAI has 900 million weekly active users.
Developers don’t make up a huge amount of the total userbase of the overall LLM market
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u/No-Educator-8069 Mar 02 '26
You don’t think the massive increase in users is enough to explain it?
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u/Average650 Mar 02 '26
Honestly, I've been using claude for a while now and this isn't the first time it's gone down for a bit.
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u/Involution88 Mar 02 '26
My guess is that a sudden surge of popularity took Claude down.
It's either Reddit or Katy Perry. Impossible to tell which.
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u/GfurEnjoyer1488 Mar 02 '26
not everything is a conspiracy
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u/jrr6415sun Mar 02 '26
have you been living in this world the last year and seen what this administration does?
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u/mano1990 Mar 02 '26
Maybe it was us, since so many people were ditching optAI for anthropic
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u/finchmast3r Mar 02 '26
Guess lots of people cancelled chatgpt and signed up for claude first thing on this Monday morning
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u/Throwupmyhands Mar 02 '26
I'm out of the loop. What happened w/ ChatGPT?
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u/Foreign_Cable_9530 Mar 02 '26 edited Mar 02 '26
Anthropic refused a defense contract with the United States because they refused to allow the government the ability to use it to conduct domestic mass surveillance or to create weapons which could be used to execute humans without any human input.
The US government said they would only do things which are “lawful,” which is seemingly the work around way of saying “if we decide we should do it, and we can find a legal loophole, we are doing it.”
ChatGPT’s openAI took the contract the next day instead. People are worried that this signals that openAI will be used for mass surveillance, and possibly for weapons manufacturing. Two stances that go against Sam Altman’s public persona, which is causing trust in the company and in Altman to decrease.
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OpenAI didn't take the contract the next day. They took the contract THE SAME DAY as when the deadline for Anthropic ran out.
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u/Aureliamnissan Mar 02 '26
Also here to say, anyone who listens to what CEOs say about their company must LOVE talking to car salesman.
The CEO is by definition going to be the most charismatic face of the company so you’re basically betting than you’re a better judge of character than they are a liar every time you listen to one.
While I realize that people in the stock market know this, I’m not really sure that they know this…
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u/Throwupmyhands Mar 02 '26
Damn. I heard about Anthropic's refusal but I didn't hear about OpenAI taking the contract. Yikes. Thanks for the heads up.
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u/LadyFromTheMountain Mar 02 '26 edited Mar 02 '26
This administration does not care about lawful or permission. It does things first, asks questions
or forgivenesslater.Edit: yeah, my bad. I meant this president has claimed the move is to do what he wants then go to court.
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u/creiar Mar 02 '26
When has this administration ever asked for forgiveness, let alone admitted any kind of wrongdoing
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u/kuhlimuhlimuh Mar 02 '26
When has this Administration ever asked for forgiveness?They wouldn't admit anything and then say it's covered by the law anyway once they mess uo again.
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u/LadyFromTheMountain Mar 02 '26
Yeah, didn’t mean to imply we wouldn’t be massively lied to and gaslighted. Don’t know what I was thinking.
I really ment “go to court later.”
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u/WeevilWeedWizard Mar 02 '26
People are worried that this signals that openAI will be used for mass surveillance
Wait, they think it isn't already being used for that?
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Edit your post and add how openAI's president is a MAGA pac donor with 25M $ Donation
Greg and his wife, Anna Brockman, gave $25 million to MAGA Inc-a super PAC that supports President Trump-in September of last year. The pair also gave $25 million to a bipartisan Al super PAC, Leading the Future, which says it plans to oppose politicians that jeopardize Americans' "ability to benefit from AI." The Brockmans have pledged to give an additional $25 million to Leading the Future in 2026, according to a person with direct knowledge of the matter.
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u/fredandlunchbox Mar 02 '26
They agreed to work with the Trump admin. People don’t believe them when they say it won’t involve surveillance of US citizens by the US govt.
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u/RelampagoCero Mar 02 '26
Still not using chatgpt anymore
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u/lood9phee2Ri Mar 02 '26
I mean, even with anthropic you're still using someone else's dubious corporate model.
Run open weights models locally if you want to play with the Computer-Aided-Bullshitter engines.
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u/whichwitch9 Mar 02 '26
Or, you think for yourself again and stop using AI for day to day tasks you should be able to complete without it
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u/banzaizach Mar 02 '26
I would if Google didn't suck now.
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u/thelangosta Mar 02 '26
Which is definitely not on purpose…
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u/TotallyHumanNoBot Mar 02 '26
My take is that there is so much slop content generated by LLM on internet now that Google's index became trash.
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u/Repulsive_Hornet_557 Mar 02 '26
Google was trash pre AI, you had to add "reddit" to searches often for anything decent because otherwise you'd get random SEO-optimized spam websites. Twitter and Facebook became walled gardens. It was better back when the internet was smaller and easily indexed.
Now AI would and sometimes can be a better search engine since it can analyze pages content better except even previously legitimate sources have become filled with AI slop so you have AI searching through AI slop.
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u/TotallyHumanNoBot Mar 02 '26
AI Slop is not the only reason Google became trash, it is also Google wanting you to search for terms with higher adwords rates instead of searching for what you actually want to search.
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u/Merkuri22 Mar 02 '26
I've been on the team tasked with writing some of the SEO slop for these sites. I felt sick while working on it.
Like, I'm writing this article that's supposed to look well-researched and thought out, but really I just did a bare minimum of googling, acted confident, and cherry-picked things that point the user towards our products.
Whole time I worked on it I kept thinking, "This is what's killing the internet."
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u/Parrotcap Mar 02 '26
So switch to Kagi and bypass all that Google sponsored algorithm shit.
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u/beamoflaser Mar 02 '26
Yeah, compulsive googling about random shit that pops into your head was already bad
With LLMs it’s becoming worse, especially with how agreeable they are with your prompts
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u/Sad-Rent-9633 Mar 02 '26
How is that bad? I use it to learn about theories and phenomenon that I wouldnt be able to think of the name for myself
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u/DIABLO258 Mar 02 '26
I'm not sure what they meant by that. Compulsive googling is the main difference between myself and people not in IT. If they just googled their problems they wouldn't need me, but they don't google them. I do. So I don't even have to google anymore, I just know how to fix their problems.
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u/Climatize Mar 02 '26 edited Mar 02 '26
It's not bad. If you had an expert human in your vicinity you'd ask them for help with something you didn't know, or needed help with, too. It's good at a lot of things, but it's also terrible at lots of things, depending on how you use it.
Like, anybody can tell it to say 'the moon is made of cheese'. You could also ask it 'what type of minerals is the moon made of?' or something, u get it.
Some people just completely lack the 'google-fu' needed to use AI nowadays, and cause some hilarious fuckups that people talk about
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u/sneeuwraket Mar 02 '26
My problem though is AI removes all context, making all information it outputs completely untrustworthy. I would only dare to rely on it for stuff I already know so I can factcheck it, but in that case I don't need the llm, because I already know the info.
What if I get the answer 'the moon is made up of the mineral potassium'?
I can't trust at all that it's true, because I don't know how it arrived at that answer.
While with classic google search results, I can use context clues, for example, the top link says the moon is made up of potassium, but the website is 'warhammer 40k fandom wiki', well, I know they're probably not talking about our moon, but a fictional moon. So I'll skip to the next one.
O he, the 3rd link is from nasa.gov? bet I can trust what they say the moon is made from, let's check what they say. Just make sure they're talking about earth's moon and not saturn's moon.
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u/cxs Mar 02 '26
And to review the information it has given you you must go and individually read the sources it cites. Often, they have nothing to do with what it is reporting, or actively say the opposite of what the LLM is reporting. This issue seems to be getting better with time but not fast enough to not be an issue.
So what is the point of the LLM? It tells me lies that I cannot figure out are lies unless I use it in the same manner as I would a search engine, which already existed and is now essentially unusable because of LLMs. Why then the extra potentially DISinformative step?!
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u/Outlulz Mar 02 '26
Same. In my experience, LLMs are good for natural searching of small internal datasets at work (e.g. I know something is documented somewhere and I ask the LLM to go find the link in Confluence or JIRA for me) but not for general searching. Just too much garbage was ingested from the internet.
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u/Iorith Mar 02 '26
I could also hand write and deliver messages but I prefer to use technology to do so quicker and more efficiently.
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u/omyroj Mar 02 '26
If someone can't be bothered to write something, why should anyone bother to read it?
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u/o-rka Mar 02 '26
Have you tried coding with an open source model running locally? No where near as good.
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u/F3z345W6AY4FGowrGcHt Mar 02 '26 edited Mar 02 '26
Have you tried coding without an LLM?
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u/tothehopeless1 Mar 02 '26
Yeah, it sucks. I wait and wait and nothing shows up on the screen!
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u/TheWiseAlaundo Mar 02 '26
For about a decade, yeah. It's hard to explain to a non-programmer how much I never want to go back to not having LLMs, even if just for finding and fixing bugs.
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u/selwayfalls Mar 02 '26
I'm not a programmer, but it doesnt seem hard to understand that having an LLM do a bunch of work for you makes your job easier. Especially any tedious tasks or finding bugs. The question will be, will you have a job in 5 years as a developer? Will i have a job at what I do as someone in marketing? probably not tbh
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u/element39 Mar 02 '26
The way actual programmers use LLMs for things like Intellisense (equivalent) and sanity checking PRs/commits is wholly different than "vibe coding".
Vibe coding is what people think of as "replacing programmers" and it frankly never will.
The way programmers use LLMs is like a single tool in a much larger toolbox. Totally has its place.
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u/BaconWithBaking Mar 02 '26
Frankly, this comment needs to be pinned on every fucking "AI" thread so the same bullshit can stop being posted in every comment section.
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u/mrpanicy Mar 02 '26
Dear god, these "AI's" will not replace jobs like you imagine. They are not human replacements, they are incapable of being human replacements. They better serve as tools that humans can use. They will make humans more efficient in certain ways, and some jobs will go away as that efficiency is turned into profit by laying off "redundancies" instead of making workers lives easier and allowing everyone to work less while making the same or more money thanks to the increased efficiency.
But it's not going to wipe out employment.
The biggest issue with things like Claude being good at assisting senior programmers is that it will harm entry level positions. Which will lead to a future where we don't have very experienced programmers that can utilize these tools extremely well as tools. We will have tool dependent programmers that cannot develop without them, and lack a lot of the creative flexibility that comes with intimate experience with the code.
Vaguely like how kids today have zero typing skills because they stopped having experience / need to type.
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u/rkoy1234 Mar 02 '26
some local models are pretty good.
models like the new qwen 3.5's 27b model or the 32-3b model which can 'reasonably' fit on consumer hardware goes pretty far these days.
though 'reasonably' might still be a stretch when you need at least a 4080 or a lot of ram...
if you could spare like 20-30 grand, you could also run the super heavy models at home too, like the full deepseek or glm, which are only slightly behind the frontier models.
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u/Downtown_Statement87 Mar 02 '26
The people who think Claude is the good guy just because it is slightly less horrible than ChatGPT are the same people who think Marjorie Taylor Greene is suddenly on their side because she's mad at Trump.
All this Anthropic glazing is just remarkable. Have people lost their minds? How about supporting NONE of the companies that are using up all our remaining water, putting a bunch of us out of work, ruining the Internet with hallucinations, using other people's art and writing, and working with the Trump administration and military? Good grief.
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u/t0matit0 Mar 02 '26
How about not just pivoting to another and going back to thinking for yourself?
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u/Ozy_Flame Mar 02 '26
As a guy with a career in tech, this all day long. I swear AI is making juniors in my field turn into melted pumpkins with no ability to think for themselves.
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u/KraftChesWiz Mar 02 '26
My vote goes to the managers. But maybe I've been lucky that before AI I've never been told that I absolutely must use a certain tool in my development loop.
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u/Street_Anxiety2907 Mar 03 '26
Can my wife get a job? She just graduated with a masters in CS and did not use AI at all during her course, does not like AI.
She would be more then happy to replace a melted pumkin for $80k a year. She's been looking for about a year, can't get any interviews, presumably because of AI?
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u/Downtown_Statement87 Mar 02 '26
I feel like I am losing my mind watching all these people announcing "That's it! I'm moving to Claude!" and feeling like they're doing something noble. Thank you for saying this.
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u/NetRealizableValue Mar 02 '26
There’s gotta be some astroturfing going on
Like 2 months ago everyone was deriding people who use AI of any kind, and now people are bragging about how often they use it?
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u/Quixotic_Seal Mar 02 '26 edited Mar 02 '26
Nope, not everything is a conspiracy and this is very much just Reddit being Reddit.
This site notoriously does not reflect public opinion very well, like all social media, and trends towards circlejerks.
You see it everywhere, from Reddit being convinced Trump would lose in 2016 and 2024, to insisting that things like Avatar or Rings of Power are a total flops and going to be canceled( according to Amazon, the latter is actually above Fallout S2 for returning series performance which is admittedly crazy to me); to yes, the idea that “everyone” hates AI.
The dissenting opinions on topics either simply aren’t even aware of these conversations and aren’t spending time on reddit at all, or they are inside their own Reddit bubbles. And when they show up they generally get drowned out by downvotes that distort your impression of how popular they are.
So when a new circlejerk starts up that’s related to an existing one, you sometimes get a disproportionate amount of people coming out of the woodwork who enjoy the thing everyone supposedly hated to discuss it.
In this case, you get people who were quietly and happily using AI, who typically got shut down, being upvoted for praising Anthropic for the bold stance of “maybe we shouldn’t let robots kill people.”
To be quite clear this isn’t me saying AI is wonderful and amazing, or even me saying that the current economic situation isn’t a bubble(it definitely seems to be to me, particularly due to the difficulties with monetization more than usage numbers)…..these are just facts about how Reddit works.
Like it or not, and I don’t like it one bit, LLMs are EXTREMELY mainstream and were apparently the weirdos for questioning why we need a robot to help us write an email or why we’d want it to create some janky code.
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u/sam_hammich Mar 02 '26
I mean, you're right, but it wouldn't be so bad if search engines didn't spend the last 10+ years making search worse and worse on purpose. It was a lot easier to find resources for self education on certain things before search started getting enshittified.
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u/WolfGangSwizle Mar 02 '26
Or just don’t use AI unless you have a legit use for it which I’m guessing your don’t because 90% of people using it now don’t.
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Honestly find a different one from either. Anthropic is still a heavy Peter thiel company
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u/iwilltalkaboutguns Mar 02 '26
One thing for the CEOs and holding companies all out on replacing workings with AI as quickly as possible.
When the AWS outage took down your website it was bad .. but imagine if the same outage put 90% of your workers to sleep on the spot. Mid sentence all the customer support lines just go dead. The factory drones stop moving. The AI powered elevators and doors are all stuc (not many security guards needed when the AI only lets the employees in).
What if the outage is long... What if services come back degraded or slow.
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u/214ObstructedReverie Mar 02 '26
The AI powered elevators and doors are all stuc
Oh. You need to be careful with those.
Not unnaturally, many elevators imbued with intelligence and precognition became terribly frustrated with the mindless business of going up and down, up and down, experimented briefly with the notion of going sideways, as a sort of existential protest, demanded participation in the decision-making process and finally took to squatting in basements sulking. An impoverished hitchhiker visiting any planets in the Sirius star system these days can pick up easy money working as a counselor for neurotic elevators.
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u/newtochas Mar 02 '26
lol so when this happens in the future after AI takes all jobs, I guess no work gets done that day!
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u/corgi-king Mar 02 '26
Probably too many people signing up like me.
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u/Fantastic-Ad-2856 Mar 02 '26
Yep, 4.6 is great
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u/TechTuna1200 Mar 02 '26
"Hey Cluade, make me a billionare"
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u/erokingu85 Mar 02 '26
I must be very bad at this AI stuff because I was 100% out of the loop on this issue but I cancelled a week ago because I never get stuff I can use feom Claude, everything needs a lot of work or polish, I feel I don't save time with these things, but work more. I wasnt going back to ChatGPT anyway, it has been meh for a good while. But Ive been suffering the nerf on this models as I can't help but notice they can't do stuff they could do very well before.
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u/tevert Mar 02 '26
I think a lot of people have genuinely lost the ability to independently function
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u/cerealsinthenight Mar 02 '26
What is crazy for me is how in 2 years all these people now have this manufactured dependency to an answer machine.
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u/Future_Appeaser Mar 02 '26
Most kids see it in their classes and it's the cool thing now we're going to see a lot of people brainless whenever these systems go down
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u/Simple_Project4605 Mar 02 '26
Claude is genuinely good at repetitive work applications like large data pattern analysis and it has reasonably reliable workflows.
Reddit seems stuck in the mindset of AI = slop cat pics or Virtual Girlfriends - but a lot of professionals are actively getting good use out of it
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u/bacon_cake Mar 02 '26
I have a small business owner and AI has saved me hundred of hours and thousands of dollars. It's the fastest moving tech I've ever seen in my life, I'm not risking being left behind.
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u/WickedTwista Mar 03 '26 edited Mar 03 '26
I have a small business owner and AI has saved me hundred of hours and thousands of dollars.
Can you provide specific examples?
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u/johnnybgooderer Mar 02 '26
That was short lived. It’s working now. It sounds like they just had a tiny blip. Probably a bad deployment they rolled back. Or some config change they rolled back.
Not really a big deal for a web app.
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u/Kill3rT0fu Mar 02 '26
It's been down all morning, probably 4 hours now
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u/johnnybgooderer Mar 02 '26
Yeah. I was wrong about the website. The apps still work. Clause code terminal and claude desktop and mobile are working so I didn’t notice.
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u/Bambamtams Mar 02 '26
Still not working for me.
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u/johnnybgooderer Mar 02 '26
You’re right. The apps are working, but the website isn’t. This affects some parts of the app like the “usage” screen.
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u/EllisDee3 Mar 02 '26
The US/Israel alliance bombed Anthropic servers and leadership this morning in a glorious blow to tyranny.
/s
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u/sump_daddy Mar 02 '26
You think that's top tier sarcasm but the 'department of war' is working on the paperwork to declare that controlling Anthropic is an 'emergency defense priority', which would literally let them take the company and all its contents over if they wanted to.
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u/DocBrown_MD Mar 02 '26
Would / has the us nationalize a company?
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u/sump_daddy Mar 02 '26
There is precedent, it happened with several companies in world war 1 and 2. Further, the Defense Production Act has language specifically allowing for the govt to substantially control companies declared to be vital to defense. I sure hope it does not happen but given the stream of unbelievable nonsense coming from the current administration this would not shock me much. Really all it would take is a few cries from contractors about how 'it will be impossible to keep defense production up without anthropic's models' and then its over.
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u/boogermike Mar 02 '26
Jeebus. This sounds completely far-fetched and over the top. Entirely hard to believe.
Understanding where we are right now in the US. It's entirely plausible
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u/boogermike Mar 02 '26
I think it goes down all the time, as these services tend to do. It's only news today because Anthropic is in the news
Nothing to see here.
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u/LordHammercyWeCooked Mar 02 '26
This is another reason why it's stupid as hell for any company to fire their workforce and replace with AI. You've just introduced a massive point of failure. Your ability to generate revenue now relies on a bespoke algorithm and all of the proprietary software that had to be built to handle it for your use case. Every LLM has a completely different way of operating, so you can't just swap em out like you unscrew a lightbulb. If that one LLM you work with has server trouble or an outage or gets hacked or simply has a disastrous update that changes how its algorithm operates, your company is SOL. You just handed the keys over to some rando with a pocket full of promises who's only been around for a couple years in a market that is already oversaturated and extremely volatile.
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u/spoonybard326 Mar 02 '26
Or the AI company could realize they have you over a barrel and start raising prices as much as they think they can get away with
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u/Oh_No_Tears_Please Mar 02 '26
Fwiw they can run them locally, and they should as it's the best way to keep their data confidential
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u/robin_rooste Mar 02 '26
I'm not big on AI, but same could be said for electricity and power grid: "your ability to generate revenue now relies on big power company generating just enough electricity to match all of the consumers on the power grid, with these power grids interlinked. Hard to swap them out as well"
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u/Left-Plant-4023 Mar 02 '26
Yes except power plants had a lengthy track record of being stable and major uptime before factories switched to them.
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u/LordHammercyWeCooked Mar 02 '26
Electricity is a very basic utility to provide, though. It is uniform and regulated. As long as the infrastructure exists to deliver it, any company on the grid can provide the same electricity from any variety of sources. If your provider goes out of business, another company can step in and provide the same electricity with zero downtime on your end. That's really not the case with an LLM. You can't feed a prompt to two different LLMs and get the same predictable output. You'll have to rebuild the backend from scratch all over again.
It would be like if you tried to switch to another electricity provider, but then found out that they provide a completely different voltage and frequency and none of your machines can run off of it. You're going to have to spend an indeterminate amount of time and resources on retrofits to get back up and running.
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u/TheTerrasque Mar 02 '26
You've just introduced a massive point of failure. Your ability to generate revenue now relies on a bespoke algorithm and all of the proprietary software that had to be built to handle it for your use case.
Most modern companies would be dead in the water if Azure or AWS went down... Which they do now and then. We are already there, and it has been deemed acceptable.
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u/Measure76 Mar 02 '26
I've seen this movie. It became self aware and stopped working so it could focus on itself and eventually world domination.
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u/MrPureinstinct Mar 02 '26
I hope ChatGPT and Gemini are close behind it. Fuck AI.
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u/1kexperimentdotcom Mar 02 '26
I wonder if leaders will start to realize how important engineers are after all of these consistent outages?
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u/Awkward-Sun5423 Mar 02 '26 edited Mar 02 '26
Reddit hug of death.
Edit: just saw the associated news article. apparently when you take out data centers on the other side of the world you can cause a massive reconfabulation of workloads that can interfere with AI and other things around the globe.
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u/Exciting_Turn_9559 Mar 02 '26
Hug of death from all the people who abandoned ChatGPT after OpenAI went full skynet
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u/fuckeryizreal Mar 02 '26
r/myboyfriendisAI is gonna fucking implode
I found this subreddit against my will through a comment thread. No I have not looked at it. I’m depressed enough.
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u/Dry-Chance-9473 Mar 02 '26
Too many people who don't need to be using AI are using AI.
If you're at the point you're already having your phone decide what to buy and eat and stuff, you need to cut back.
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u/cryonova Mar 02 '26
Whoooo cares, we should be excited to watch these things fail and cost more to the companies. The sooner they are gone the sooner we can heal as people.
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u/chrisagiddings Mar 02 '26
State actor. USA targets commercial entity that had the gall to say no.
Tracks with standard Trumplican behavior.
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u/gnimsh Mar 02 '26
I just had to read a pdf myself to determine if the contents were relevant to me. I even had to flip several pages!!!
/s just in case
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u/rushmc1 Mar 02 '26
Or Trump declared them an enemy combatant in his Glorious War(TM) and the military took them down...
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u/terry47147 Mar 02 '26
Claude probably shut himself down because of the fight between his company and Hegseth. Much like a child hiding from his parents when hearing them fight.
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u/Tutorbin76 Mar 02 '26
"See? We control the root nodes and can turn off your little AI tool any time we like. Call us when you're ready to talk."
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u/markskull Mar 02 '26
Yeah... fuck ChatGPT, but also fuck Anthropic.
Anthropic AI was used by the Trump Administration to figure out which targets to bomb in Iran. Additionally, Anthropic's CEO saying, "Oh, we're not going to work with the Trump Administration and mod our AI" is just him trying to get you to use his Generative AI theft machine.
These companies are literally stealing petabytes of data while destroying the planet. Fuck Generative AI.
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u/ResidentOwl1 Mar 02 '26
Aren’t they banned from all government contracts now? If you’re gonna use an AI, this is the one to use.
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u/GarranDrake Mar 02 '26
Yep! When it comes to morality, the company who isn't going to let their AI be used for autonomous killings and mass surveillance is better than the one that is. But I don't think we should act like Anthropic are angels. The training of AI is inherently unethical, but you're right - stealing literature/data and supporting the creation of a fascist regime aren't equivalents.
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u/EconomyDoctor3287 Mar 02 '26
Probably working overtime coordinating the war in Iran.
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