Chatgpt Is Down Right Now - What We Know About The Outage

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ChatGPT is experiencing a awesome outage.
OpenAI has confirmed "elevated errors."
Users study nan work is down connected X.

If you're staring astatine an correction connection from ChatGPT correct now, you're not alone. The celebrated AI chatbot is experiencing a important outage, pinch users flooding societal media to corroborate it's not working.

Problems started Thursday morning

The outage appears to person started astir 11 a.m. ET.

OpenAI's charismatic position page posted an incident, stating, "We're presently experiencing issues" and "Increased errors connected ChatGPT conversations." The institution confirmed users are experiencing "elevated errors" and is "working connected implementing a mitigation."

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Downdetector, which is owned by ZDNET genitor institution Ziff Davis, tracks outages for astir sites and services, and it's lit up for illustration a Christmas character correct now pinch a massive, vertical spike successful user-submitted problems.

Around 30 minutes ago, hundreds of reports came in, pinch 94% specifically astir ChatGPT alternatively than different services for illustration Sora.

Not conscionable ChatGPT

Some users are noting that different services mightiness besides beryllium affected.

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"Chatgpt and grok are some down, what is going on? AWS astatine it again?" one developer posted connected X. Another user joked, "ChatGPT is down and I'm going to person to beryllium sent location from activity for illustration successful nan olden days erstwhile it snowed."

Downdetector's homepage also shows galore different services presently experiencing user-reported errors aliases outages, pinch spikes intelligibly visible for AWS, Grok, NordVPN, and more.

What's happening?

OpenAI hasn't fixed a cause, but speculation is already pointing to a broader unreality outage (like nan AWS incident earlier this week). It's besides imaginable this is related to a characteristic rollout, pinch Atlas launching this week.

For now, it looks for illustration it's clip to drawback a java and deed refresh. Gemini appears to beryllium moving still, arsenic are different popular AI chatbot services. So, if you haven't taken nan clip to effort nan competition, now is your chance.

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I've contacted OpenAI and will update this communicative arsenic soon arsenic I cognize more.

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Editor's note: This communicative was primitively published astatine 11:40am ET connected Oct. 23. It's being updated unrecorded arsenic nan outage unfolds.