ChatGPT down as OpenAI outage disrupts access to AI chatbot and API services

ChatGPT down for you? You're not alone, as outage affects OpenAI platform

The problems are under active investigation, but the outage continues. Planned on getting a head start on the week by firing up ChatGPT and using its AI tools to solve a few problems? Well, we hope you had a backup solution planned, as OpenAI shares word of an ongoing service outage. The problems first got started overnight, when OpenAI noted some unwanted behavior from ChatGPT Business, in specific. But a few hours later, and the company's problems are now a lot more widespread, affecting ChatGPT, Codex, and access to them through the API. The current phase of this outage has been going on for just over an hour at this point, and OpenAI reports that it's impacting users and preventing them from using ChatGPT. If that group includes you, just hold tight -- hopefully this blip is nearly over, and we can all get back to our AI-assisted workflows soon.

ChatGPT is down -- Live updates on the massive AI outage

Thankfully, OpenAI quickly followed up on its status reporting page to say that something was wrong. "We are continuing to investigate the issue for the listed services," reads a recent status update. While OpenAI was quick to report the outage on its status page, the company has been extremely slow to provide additional updates. It's been just about 30 minutes since the company last reported that it's investigating the outage, even though the Downdetector reports are down in the low hundreds. Now that ChatGPT seems to be working for most people (at least based on Downdetector reports), I decided to jump over to the AI chatbot to ask if it had an outage today. After scanning its own status page, ChatGPT confirmed it had an outage. At least it was honest about its ongoing issue. On OpenAI's side, the outage is still showing as "Investigating," but for users, things seem to be coming back to normal as Downdetector reports are dropping fast. There are a lot of parts of ChatGPT that are currently experiencing issues. In fact, just about all of them are currently dealing with problems, as you can see from the list above. "We are investigating the issue for the listed services. Impacted users are currently unable to access ChatGPT, Codex and API Platform," reads the latest post on the OpenAI status page. Unfortunately, that doesn't really tell us much, only adding what parts of ChatGPT are currently experiencing issues. According to its status page, which is showing a "Partial Outage" for ChatGPT, OpenAI is currently investigating the issue. "We are continuing to investigate the issue for the listed services," reads the quick note from the company. While investigating is good, it would be nice to see the company get a fix as soon as possible, as people rely heavily on ChatGPT for all kinds of tasks. Though there may be a lesson to be learned about being overly reliant on AI tools. The outage reports on Downdetector shot up quickly but they seem to have dropped a bit since the initial outage.