ChatGPT down for some users, OpenAI says
OpenAI's popular ChatGPT is currently down for some users in an "unresolved incident," the company said Tuesday.
OpenAI said on its status page early Tuesday morning that "We are continuing to work on a fix for this issue."
The status page first said the issue was being investigated around 12:30 a.m. Pacific time on Tuesday.
Users have been posting pictures on X of "Bad gateway" errors they say they are encountering when trying to access ChatGPT.
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OpenAI says some users are having issues accessing ChatGPT Tuesday. (CFOTO/Future Publishing via Getty Images / Getty Images)
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman announced in November that around 100 million people use ChatGPT on a weekly basis, according to media reports.
In late May, former OpenAI board member Helen Toner shared new details about the ouster of Altman from OpenAI last year, who was subsequently rehired with a new board in place.
Toner said in an interview on The TED AI Show that Altman's behavior made it difficult for OpenAI's uniquely-structured non-profit board to carry out its purpose of "making sure that the company's public good mission was primary, was coming first over profits, investor interests and other things."
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman gestures during a session of the World Economic Forum meeting in Davos on Jan. 18, 2024. (Fabrice Coffrini/AFP via Getty Images / Getty Images)
"For years, Sam had made it really difficult for the board to actually do that job by withholding information, misrepresenting things that were happening at the company, in some cases outright lying to the board," she explained.
OpenAI referred FOX Business to a statement on the subject by Bret Taylor, chair of the OpenAI board, that was provided on The TED AI Show.
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"We are disappointed that Ms. Toner continues to revisit these issues. An independent committee of the board worked with the law firm Wilmer Hale to conduct an extensive review of the events of November. The review concluded that the prior board's decision was not based on concerns regarding product safety or security, the pace of development, OpenAI's finances, or its statements to investors, customers, or business partners."
FOX Business' Eric Revell contributed to this report.
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