I'm currently on a free trial of ChatGPT, and one new thing I didn't regularly see before* is that longer tasks perform a lot of web searches when generating non-trivial results.
I wonder if this is part of it? It's not (just) DDOS by crawlers, it's DDOS by the users themselves triggering (albeit indirectly) far more requests than a human normally would? I've seen that happen in a different context, over a decade ago now.
* old models would do this sometimes when you ask for whatever the "deep research" mode was called, but this now seems to happen a lot more and involve a lot more fetches
I wonder if this is part of it? It's not (just) DDOS by crawlers, it's DDOS by the users themselves triggering (albeit indirectly) far more requests than a human normally would? I've seen that happen in a different context, over a decade ago now.
* old models would do this sometimes when you ask for whatever the "deep research" mode was called, but this now seems to happen a lot more and involve a lot more fetches