Got the error "OSError: Can't load tokenizer for 'openai/clip-vit-large-patch14'" while Hugging when it was working previously

[Oneechan69]

I was running A111 in a Runpod instance (image generation was working) and paused it for a few hours, and suddenly I got an error when hitting generate, OSError: Can't load tokenizer for 'openai/clip-vit-large-patch14'. If you were trying to load it from 'https://huggingface.co/models'. I then saw that huggingface.co had a 503 error and the status page showed that it was down. I paused the instance again and resumed it after the site went back up, and image generation worked again. I'm just really curious why an outage would make it stop working when it was working before, does the A1111 UI have to download stuff while generating images?

I also made a Reddit discussion for it: https://www.reddit.com/r/StableDiffusion/comments/1b2q7cf/did_anyone_else_have_issues_running_sd_today_228/