ChatGPT, the widely used AI-powered chatbot, experienced a significant outage, leaving millions of users around the globe unable to access its services. The disruption began early in the day and rapidly gained attention as users rushed towards social media platforms including X and outage tracking sites to report their difficulties.
Reports on Downdetector, a popular service that tracks website outages, began to spike dramatically by mid-morning, indicating a widespread issue affecting users internationally. The site noted that a majority of the problems were related to accessing the ChatGPT service, with smaller percentages struggling with the OpenAI website and mobile applications.
The outage was first noticed when users began experiencing difficulties accessing the ChatGPT platform, with reports rapidly increasing around 10 AM Eastern Time.
OpenAI swiftly acknowledged the issue, stating on their official support page that “ChatGPT is currently unavailable for some users.”
The company started investigating this problem around 00:21 PDT. Updates followed shortly after, indicating that the problem had been identified and mitigation efforts were underway. OpenAI assured users that they would provide continuous updates until the issue was resolved.
At around 04:45 PDT, OpenAI on their official status page updated that this problem has been resolved, however, it also mentioned that ChatGPT is still unavailable for some users.
Following this outage, social media especially X became a hotspot for discussion and speculation among users. Many expressed their reliance on ChatGPT for daily tasks, highlighting the increasing dependency on AI tools in everyday life.
This outage not only sparked frustration but also led to humorous exchanges online, with users joking about having to “rely on human intelligence” once again.
This incident is one of the most significant disruptions to ChatGPT since its launch.
OpenAI has reaffirmed its dedication to enhancing system resilience and user support, promising to prevent such widespread disruptions in the future.
Like many others, you have also been wondering what could be the actual reason behind this major issue and for that, we have to wait for any official statement from OpenAI.