ChatGPT, the popular artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot run by OpenAI, appears to be experiencing widespread issues as of Monday afternoon.
OpenAI confirmed on a status page that it had identified a “partial outage” and “errors on ChatGPT for all paid users”.
“We have identified that users are experiencing elevated errors for the impacted services,” OpenAI said at 1:38pm UK time on Monday. “We are working on implementing a mitigation.”
Website status site Down Detector was showing more than 1,500 reports of problems with ChatGPT as of 2pm UK time.
Many ChatGPT users took to social media to vent their frustration at the loss of their paid service.
“Aaand chatgpt is down. Welcome back to the dark ages”, said X user @filipnikolich.
Many people use ChatGPT for professional purposes as well as personal, which can often be why people are upset about it breaking unexpectedly.
“ChatGPT is down, today of all days”, said @gabigabista on X.
At 2:09pm, OpenAI updated the status of the issue to say: “We are continuing to work on mitigation.”
ChatGPT is a conversational AI chatbot where users can ask questions or tpy eout prompts for the AI to answer or reply conversationally. It can create text, images, code and other outputs depending on what you ask it and how.
There is a free version, but a paid version gives you increased usage limits, faster speeds and more functionality.