ChatGPT down for thousands of users globally. OpenAI says ...

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According to Downdetector data, 81% of users who reported problems said they had problems accessing ChatGPT, 14% said they had problems accessing the OpenAI website and 5% had problems using the ChatGPT app.

While acknowledging the issue in a support page, OpenAI wrote, “ChatGPT is unavailable for some users". In a post on the same support, OpenAI wrote on 1:32 AM PDT (around 2:00 PM India time), “Identified the issue and mitigating."

In an ensuing post, OpenAI wrote, “We are continuing to work on a fix for this issue."

Meanwhile, ChatGPT users went on social media websites like X (formerly Twitter) and Instagram in order to verify if the AI service was actually facing issues.

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One user on X wondered what happens if ChatGPT never came back online, they wrote, “#ChatGPT is down. What if it never comes back and we have to use our own brains to write stuff again?"

Another user while sharing their issue wrote, “ChatGPT is not responding, neither on computer nor on the phone."

"How am I supposed to get any work done with ChatGPT being down!?" A frustrated ChatGPT user questioned on X.

A user making sarcastic comment about ChatGPT outage wrote, “I'm asking ChatGPT why it's not working but I'm not getting an answer! I might have to ask a human being."

“Chat GPT is down, I'm not doing any actual thinking, I refuse. I'll just sit here until it becomes available again." Yet another user wrote on X

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Published: 04 Jun 2024, 02:50 PM IST