Thousands of users worldwide, including in India and the U.S., report disruptions in accessing ChatGPT.
OpenAI’s rollout of the Ghibli-style image generation tool to free users leads to server strain and imposed limits.
Users flood X with memes and jokes, trolling ChatGPT and CEO Sam Altman over repeated outages.
ChatGPT Down: OpenAI appears to be having some serious issues, as its popular ChatGPT is experiencing yet another outage. Thousands of users from India, the United States, and other parts of the world are unable to use the platform. Interestingly, this is the third outage of the week since the company introduced the Ghibli image generating tool.
The company has not acknowledged the outage at this time. According to Downdetector, over a hundred users in India reported disruptions, while more than 1,000 reports were received in the United States. The majority of the reports were for ChatGPT, but some users also had issues with the website.
While the reason behind the outage remains unknown, users have moved to X and have started trolling ChatGPT for multiple outages in a week. Some of them even found humour in the situation and shared funny memes, opinions, videos and tweets about the AI chatbot and Sam Altman. Here are some of the memes.
ChatGpt Down?! pic.twitter.com/Ng7y7wwflg
— Drea T (@andrea_thomp) April 1, 2025
ChatGPT down pic.twitter.com/KfqShBMmCE
— 🙅🏽♂️ (@222×44) April 1, 2025
When ChatGPT goes down and my boss realizes he can't actually replace me with AI 👏 pic.twitter.com/SBPA3bMEcg
— Tight Poker (@tightpoker) April 1, 2025
ChatGPT is down.
— ALEJO (@0xMarketer) April 1, 2025
anyone else feels like this? pic.twitter.com/nzdjE3wGLL
The outage occurred just hours after OpenAI CEO Sam Altman announced that the ChatGPT Image Generation tool is now available to all free users. Taking to X, he announced, “ChatGPT image generation is now available to all free users.”
The Ghibli-style image generation tool, which was previously limited to ChatGPT Plus users, has sparked a social media frenzy. Given the overwhelming response, CEO Sam Altman tweeted, “Can yall please chill on generating images? This is insane. Our team needs sleep.”
However, he later stated that due to the overwhelming response, the GPUs are melting, so the company implemented limits for the free tier, which is three images per day.
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