If you’ve been finding ChatGPT to be a little less chattier than usual today, you’re not alone – the service is suffering an outage that’s hitting the web version, mobile app and new Mac app.
Reports of the ChatGPT issues first started at around 2.30am ET / 7.30am BDT / 4.30pm AEST, and OpenAI has now acknowledged that there’s an issue. The company’s status page says “ChatGPT is unavailable for some users” and that “we are currently investigating the issue”.
So what exactly’s causing the outage and how long will it be before you can start firing questions at the world’s best-known chatbot again? We’ll be posting all the updates as they happen in this regularly updated liveblog.
When did the ChatGPT problems start?
According to Downdetector, the first reports of a ChatGPT outage started around two hours ago at 2.30am ET / 7.30am BDT / 4.30pm AEST.
At their peak, there were around 2,300 reports of issues in the US and around 1,000 in the UK, a not insignificant number which suggests that a significant proportion of users are unable to use the service.
We’re currently unable to use ChatGPT in either the web browser or iOS mobile app, with the latter returning an “internal server error”.