The Cloudflare Outage and its effects on ChatGPT and the weakness of the modern internet

Cloudflare

It seems that the internet cannot get a break these days. We have had so many outages in the past month that it almost seems that someone is doing it on purpose. While outages have occurred before, these outages were affecting a single service or only a small cluster of services. Now, it’s affecting so many websites that we use for our self-expression.

In the past, the internet was important, but it hadn’t weaved its way into our society so deeply. Now it’s even more important than meat space. The Cloudflare outage shows how important cloud services have become. We are not owning our own servers anymore but relying on Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, Amazon AWS among many others. This is a time where these companies are owning the internet on these massive palaces of information here.

What should companies prepare for in the next cyberattacks or outages?

Simply put, resilience is what is important.

With everything being so centralized in here, resilience is what is important. Companies need to be prepared and assure their customers that they are attempting to strengthen their networks and websites.

However, this is still not going to help with the issue that the modern internet is centralized into the hands of a couple companies.

At this moment, people are going to put effort into making their own server communities. Most people in this age are willing to go along with the flow out of the convenience rather than having to put effort into working with computer equipment which they can exile to the nerds in their communities.

These outages are going to keep happening and what is important that people learn what the internet is really about and not just treat it as a sideway to meat space. We need to remember what rules our age as it is becoming more important here.

The companies that make up the AI bubble

Business of Apps has gotten into the geography of AI businesses. The image above is the result of their efforts.

What type of AI use will make it more that chat windows?

In my opinion, the creative side of AI is probably the most important here. While productivity is important, it is art that will make these AI tools truly powerful. It needs to be able to create images of any type quickly and without issues. The smartphone got popular with people because of the camera not because of the productivity apps; that appeal came later not before.

It is because of the camera that the iPhone was able to get smartphone to become more than an adjacent object and into a digital swiss army knife. Such a phrase was used early on and I can understand why. Unlike the flip phones and the older phones, the smartphone is usable in many situations. Mobile banking is useful for many age groups and the smartphone removes the friction which existed on other types of phones and gives you an “app” to do look at your bank account which is important in this age.

Music is tricky area with AI. I have not used Suno as much here but its already seemingly getting on the Billboard charts. If you had asked average people that computer made music would have gotten their attention, they would have been skeptical. We have had sites for many years serving up tracks on the internet and before that in the music stores.

Music is another area where AI usage could really become embedded in our society just as the car or electricity. I do not believe AI will become a “microwave” where it will be there and used for many things but not transform our culture. It will not just be addition to our gadgets; it is going to replace many gadgets we have. In the realm of music, it seems that we have a greater variety of genres and experimentation than ever before in my opinion.

Suno is getting sued by many record label companies. Hopefully, they do not end up like Napster and are able to survive. I think the concept behind AI music is great and can really open people to different genres and make the creative process more interesting and enliven it with some iconoclastic energy which has been lacking for many years in our age.

Creativity I think is going to be what makes AI more mainstream. Productivity is not what gets views on YouTube; the views come from youtubers who make people imagine and cultivate their minds. AI is going to change the nature of creativity and I am confident it will not replace it but augment it. We may not have cybernetic implants yet but this is virtual kind and its truly remarkable to have these tools to revive our civilization.

Bayou Bot: The Nature of AI Art Today

AI art has become very sophisticated in the past couple years. When I began using it in January 2023, the creations were amazing from what was possible but they were crude. My first AI generations were focused on the Roman Empire and they were rather crude at the time. However, I could see the potential was there and now three years later, the creations are much higher in quality.

Celtic Archer

It is now possible to create any reality one wishes in text, image, audio and video.

These two images show what is possible. One can have a robot in the bayou, you can also have a Celtic Archer in the Scottish Highlands, evading Roman soldiers. The variety is endless in here and I say it has made my imagination ever more engaging here.

The Celtic Archer image was not even my creation. It was made by a user on Grok and it reminded me of the movie Brave. This image of evocative of the protagonist but in live action and honestly looks better than the animation.

With all the remakes and sequels, we can use AI to make more interesting stories.

It is not about replacing the human but about enhancing our abilities. If a machine can also make it a story on its own, I welcome such introduction of yet another story type into our age. Maybe they have an inherent nature which we haven’t yet seen.

Machine art and human art can work together. Sometimes in conflict. sometimes in equilibrium but I believe that the artistic side of us, the inherent soul in us will be much enriched by this wave of AI creations empowering our imaginations.