For what it's worth, every time it decides not to do anything, ping is at 20-40K (it's doing it now, at 6:55AM Central time, which is definitely not peak demand time), and it throws up the attached error message.

And no sooner do I mention it, Image AI is down again. Way to go, Moron Me, you just jinxed it.

Yeah, Text AI is being dragged through molasses in January, but at least the images for my stories are coming through (somewhat).

Thanks for posting this, I've bookmarked it to check when things are slow or dead, like the story generator I use is at the moment.

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To name a few more.

16 hours now... I mean, an update from Perchance would be nice right about now. (not mad, just asking "what's going on?")

Take your time. As an old FORTRAN coder, I know too well the headaches. You'll get it right. Only gripe I have is that sometimes it bogs down to nothing. Like yesterday, it was doing fine, but today, I think it's protesting the cold, because it takes almost three minutes to generate one paragraph. You got this.

So it's a Chinabot? Good to know.

Needs a lot of work. Takes forever to generate one paragraph in most story creators that I've tried to use, and that's if it even completes said paragraph. Stories that I could generate in 30 minutes now take over 4 hours. And this Cloudflare crap popping up every two hours is beyond lame. So yeah, something needs to be done about this new AI model. Either refine it, or ditch it for the old one and try again.