OpenAI’s ChatGPT is down in a ‘major’ outage

Technology
Wednesday, November 8th, 2023 3:36 pm EDT

Key Points

  • ChatGPT Outage: OpenAI’s widely-used chatbot, ChatGPT, is currently experiencing an outage, citing “high error rates.” This outage has affected over 100 million weekly active users of the tool.
  • Duration of Outage: The chatbot began to face issues just before 9 a.m. ET and has persisted for at least an hour. The disruption also impacts OpenAI’s API services, which are utilized by more than two million developers.
  • Remediation Efforts: OpenAI has acknowledged the problem and is actively working to address it. A status report released at 9:50 a.m. ET states that the organization is in the process of remedying the issue causing high error rates across the API and ChatGPT.

OpenAI’s popular chatbot, ChatGPT, has experienced an outage with “high error rates,” impacting over 100 million weekly active users. The issue started just before 9 a.m. ET and has persisted for an hour. The outage also affects OpenAI’s API services, used by more than two million developers. Users are being informed that ChatGPT is currently at full capacity. OpenAI has acknowledged the problem and is actively working on resolving the issue, with a status report provided at 9:50 a.m. ET.

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