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OpenAI’s ChatGPT and APIs affected by ‘periodic outages’ after DDoS attack - SiliconANGLE

Nov 09, 2023 - siliconangle.com
OpenAI LP's ChatGPT chatbot and APIs have been experiencing periodic outages due to a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack. The issue was disclosed by OpenAI on its service status page, stating that they are dealing with abnormal traffic patterns indicative of a DDoS attack. The outages have affected all users, not just a subset, and have caused difficulties for the more than 100 million weekly active users of ChatGPT and developers using OpenAI's APIs.

OpenAI CEO, Sam Altman, attributed the high user traffic to the interest in new features announced at a recent product event. The company is working on mitigating the issue and released a fix within an hour of updating its service status page. It was also reported that Anthropic PBC, a competitor of OpenAI, experienced technical issues, although it is unclear if these were due to a DDoS attack.

Key takeaways:

  • OpenAI's ChatGPT chatbot and APIs have been experiencing periodic outages due to a DDoS attack.
  • The company first began experiencing technical issues about 24 hours before the disclosure, affecting its more than 100 million weekly active users and developers using its APIs.
  • OpenAI CEO Sam Altman attributed the high user traffic to strong interest in the new features announced at its DevDay product event.
  • Anthropic PBC, one of OpenAI’s competitors, also experienced technical issues, although it's unclear if these were caused by a DDoS attack.
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