It's Not Just You: Chatgpt Is Down - Here's What We Know

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ZDNET's cardinal takeaways

• 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."

(Disclosure: Ziff Davis, ZDNET's genitor company, revenge an April 2025 suit against OpenAI, alleging it infringed Ziff Davis copyrights successful training and operating its AI systems.)

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Downdetector, which is owned by ZDNET's 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."

What's happening?

OpenAI hasn't fixed a guidelines cause, but personification 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 caller characteristic rollout, pinch Atlas launching this week.

For now, it looks for illustration it's clip to drawback a java and deed refresh.  

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

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