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ChatGPT, one of the most popular artificial intelligence-based chatbots, was facing disruptions earlier today, barring users from making conversations or accessing their history. While OpenAI has not acknowledged the outage, ChatGPT has revealed that the outage was caused by a “technical issue on a global scale.” At the time when ChatGPT was inaccessible for thousands of users, Downdetector showed a sharp spike in outage reports, crossing 3,000. Users have reported issues in other OpenAI services, including the APIs based on its foundational models.
“The disruptions were due to a technical issue on a global scale, but the exact cause wasn’t something that was fully disclosed,” answered ChatGPT to a question related to the outage.
According to the internet outage watchdog, 89 per cent of the total outages were related to ChatGPT, while 10 per cent of them were on the website. A small one per cent of the outages were related to OpenAI’s APIs.
Some users flagged issues while accessing the websites, such as chatgpt.com and chat.com, while some others said that while the website would open, ChatGPT was not responding to queries. “ChatGPT seems to be down at the moment,” said a user on Downdetector’s forum, adding that they are seeing a “web server reported a bad gateway error” message on the screen. ChatGPT’s dedicated apps for Android and iOS are also unresponsive currently, due to the outage.
While outages and disruption in services are common for internet services, ChatGPT has experienced downtimes frequently over the last few weeks. In December, ChatGPT was hit by a massive outage in the US, resulting in glitches in additional OpenAI services, as well.
