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I believe if you check the activity history, you will see a massive spike of request coming from China around the time the service went down.

Doubt we will have anything official though. Cyberwars are often fought in the shadow.



> if you check the activity history, you will see a massive spike of request coming from China

Have you ever seen an activity history from OpenAI or is this your imagined hypothesis?


where can you see the activity history with location data? (Sorry for asking you since my other assistant isn't available.)


I saw this being posted, but that's not very definitive and it's not clear if the traffic is an attack or not: https://www.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/comments/11wqscn/china_is_c...


If this was related to the outage, it would specifically be evidence that it’s not an “attack”. Government hackers wouldn’t DoS a website by “googling it to death”. That would be nonsensical.

So, this points to potentially just a quick doubling of traffic from some fraction of half a billion people in China.




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