ChatGPT Suffers Global Outage: OpenAI Confirms Disruption and Restoration

ChatGPT Faces Global Disruption: OpenAI Responds

ChatGPT, the popular AI chatbot, experienced a global outage, leaving many users unable to access the service. Downdetector, a website that tracks outages, reported a surge in user reports indicating problems with accessing OpenAI's chatbot.

According to reports, approximately 91% of users encountered issues while trying to use ChatGPT. Around 7% of users were unable to access the website altogether, while the remaining users faced difficulties logging into their accounts.

Frustrated users turned to X (formerly Twitter) to express their concerns and report the ongoing disruption.

OpenAI Addresses the Issue

While users struggled to connect, OpenAI's official status page acknowledged the service disruption. The company cited "increased latency and errors affecting both ChatGPT and APIs" as the cause of the problem.

Service Restored, Performance Back to Normal

Good news for users: the ChatGPT service has since been restored. According to OpenAI's official status page, the latency issue has been resolved, and "Performance is now back to normal."

The TOI Tech team independently verified the restoration by accessing ChatGPT via both the web and the mobile app. In both instances, ChatGPT appeared to be functioning correctly without any apparent issues.