It has just been a couple of days since the ChatGPT’s major outage and it appears that the service is down once again for several users across the world.
Open AI has acknowledged the outage
The outage has been reported by several users from across the globe on microblogging site X. Along with this, OpenAI has also acknowledged the outage and has mentioned it as “Partial Outage” on the OpenAI Status website.
Downdetector, the internet outage monitoring platform, has also reported the outage where around 87% users have reported facing issues while accessing ChatGPT.
Outage details
While accessing ChatGPT website it shows a message, “We’re experiencing exceptionally high demand. Please hang tight as we work on scaling our systems.”
OpenAI Status website shows that the outage has been ongoing for almost 1 hour and 45 minutes. According to Downdetector, the outage started surfacing around 5.38pm and it is still down at the time of writing this article.
TOI-Gadgetsnow also tried accessing the ChatGPT website and it seems more than just the partial outage as the chat history and functionality are down.
Reason behind the outage
OpenAI Status website mentions the reason as “Elevated error rates in ChatGPT”. Explaining this, the platform has confirmed that the investigation is going on. “Investigating – The ChatGPT application is experiencing elevated error rates and increased latency. We’re investigating.”