Is Chatgpt Down? You're Not Alone. Here's What Openai Is Saying

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If you're moving into problems pinch ChatGPT this morning, you're not alone.

Just aft 8:30 a.m. ET, reports began surfacing that paid users were experiencing rather a fewer errors erstwhile trying to converse pinch nan chatbot. In immoderate cases, ChatGPT responds pinch an correction message; successful others, it doesn't respond astatine all.

OpenAI confirmed nan issue

The outage‑tracking website DownDetector showed a spike successful reports astir that time. Reports were declining but still coming by 9:45 a.m. ET. ZDNET's genitor company, Ziff Davis, besides owns DownDetector.

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OpenAI confirmed nan rumor connected its position page, saying location were "Elevated errors connected ChatGPT for each paid users." It added that it was moving connected mitigation. At nan clip of this writing, nan issues had persisted for astir 90 minutes. The position page noted that nan "Conversations" constituent was experiencing nan astir elevated correction rates.

Only happening for paid users

OpenAI hasn't pinpointed a cause, but it is absorbing nan problems are only happening for paid users. The institution rolled retired ChatGPT Agent, which tin grip analyzable tasks from commencement to finish, for illustration scheduling an assignment for you aliases updating a spreadsheet pinch caller data, to $200 a month Pro subscribers past week and to $20 a month Plus users today. This intends there's a bully chance paid users are rushing to trial retired nan caller characteristic this morning, putting a small much strain than accustomed connected systems.

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The AI instrumentality knowledgeable a 15‑hour outage past month. This coming rumor doesn't look arsenic widespread, but it's still reasonably frustrating for affected users. OpenAI's different services, for illustration Playground, Sora, and APIs, weren't experiencing immoderate trouble.

Since nan institution is alert of nan correction and actively moving connected a fix, nan errors hopefully shouldn't past excessively overmuch longer.

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