Global outages plague ChatGPT, impacting daily user tasks and prompting social media backlash.
Downdetector reports show a surge in complaints, indicating widespread service disruption.
User frustration mounts amid repeated outages, with social media users trolling OpenAI and its CEO.
ChatGPT Down: OpenAI’s popular chatbot is once again experiencing massive global outages. The platform has been experiencing consistent outages since it introduced the image generation tool for users worldwide. Users are unable to access ChatGPT for day-to-day tasks because the shared prompt contains an error.
According to Downdetector, the outage peaked in the late evening, with over 2,000 reports in the United States and more than 200 in India. The ChatGPT received more than 80% of the complaints, followed by the website (18%) and the application (6%).
This outage comes just a day after a similar disruption on Tuesday evening, where 1,594 users reported issues globally. At the time, 94% of the complaints were specific to ChatGPT, raising concerns about OpenAI’s ability to handle the growing demand for generative AI services.
Frustrated users have moved to X and are sharing funny memes, opinions and videos to troll ChatGPT for multiple outages in a single week. Some of the users have also found humour in the situation and trolled CEO Sam Altman for the tweets stating, “You are not ready for the images tool version 2,” statement.
While the reason behind the outage remains unknown at the moment, it could be because of the overwhelming response that the chatbot is getting. OpenAI previously stated that it has added over 1 million users in an hour. The company has been getting a lot of attention after the Ghibli trend went viral.
Interestingly, the company expanded the Ghibli style image generating tool for free users. However, due to the massive numbers of users, the company restricted it to only 3 image generation per day. It is still unknown by when the ChatGPT services will be restored. Stay tuned with Digit for the latest updates.
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