ChatGPT has become a staple for many people across the globe. People are using the AI chatbot to have conversations, brainstorm ideas, organize and so much more. For this reason, when such a service goes down even for a few hours, it creates unrest amongst the small part of the population that extensively uses it. At the time of writing this article, ChatGPT is down, facing a major outage as reported by OpenAI‘s ChatGPT status page.

Users are having to rely on less popular chatbots, such as Google Bard

When a prompt is fed into ChatGPT, it refuses to generate a response, stating that “Something went wrong. If this issue persists please contact us through our help center at help.openai.com.” Upon further inspection, it’s clear that OpenAI is either updating their servers for ChatGPT and other AI-centric services such as Dall.E and Bing Search, or the downtime may be because of a technical error that is currently being investigated. Worst comes to worst, the company’s servers may be facing a coordinated attack of some sort. In such a case, the downtime might be slightly higher than expected.

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The company says that the issue is currently being investigated, and after changing the outage status from ‘Partial’ to ‘Major’, more resources should be allocated towards bringing ChatGPT back up online. The partial outage started around 5:54 a.m. PST, followed by a ‘major’ outage at 6:02 a.m. PST. Users can subscribe to text/email updates to get notified when ChatGPT is back up online. Until then, they can rely on other AI chatbots, for instance, Google‘s Bard for their needs.

UPDATE:

As of 6:50 a.m. PST, OpenAI states that they have identified an issue resulting in high error rates across the API and ChatGPT, and they are working on remediation. More updates will be available here soon.

UPDATE 2:

OpenAI has fixed the issue impacting ChatGPT. Here’s the official update from the company.

“Between 5:42AM – 7:16AM PT we saw errors impacting all services. We identified the problem and implemented a fix. We are now seeing normal responses from our services.”

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