ChatGPT, OpenAI's artificial intelligence chatbot, experienced an outage on Thursday afternoon, with reports of the issue beginning around 1:30 p.m. EST and persisting beyond 3:30 p.m. EST. Over 50,000 outages were reported on Downdetector.com, and users received an "Internal Server Error" message when attempting to use the service. OpenAI attributed the outage to an unnamed internet service provider and stated they were working on a fix. This marks the second outage for ChatGPT this month, following a six-hour disruption two weeks prior.
Despite these technical difficulties, ChatGPT remains a leading AI chatbot with over 300 million weekly users. OpenAI, valued at $157 billion after a recent funding round, has a history of resolving outages within a few hours. Users on social media humorously noted the inconvenience, while OpenAI continues to address the issue.
Key takeaways:
ChatGPT experienced an outage on Thursday afternoon, with reports of the issue starting around 1:30 p.m. EST.
More than 50,000 outages were reported on Downdetector.com, and the issue persisted beyond 3:30 p.m. EST.
OpenAI attributed the outage to an unnamed internet service provider and was working on a fix as of 4:05 p.m. EST.
OpenAI is valued at $157 billion following a $6.6 billion funding round in October.
