Is ChatGPT down? Thousands report issues
FILE - A person's hand holds an iPhone with the OpenaAI ChatGPT app running GPT-4 visible, Lafayette, California, April 18, 2024. (Photo by Smith Collection/Gado/Getty Images)
Thousands were reporting issues early Tuesday morning with a popular tech site.
Is ChatGPT down?
What we know:
According to downdetector.com, reports of user outages began around 5 a.m. ET Tuesday, growing steadily throughout the morning.
As of 8:30 a.m., more than 1,000 people were still reporting problems.
A quick test with a prompt didn't yield results around 9 a.m.
What they're saying:
OpenAI posted on social media later Tuesday morning that it was aware of heightened error rates and lags in response times across its platforms.
"Our engineers have identified the root cause and are working as fast as possible to fix the issue," the tweet said.
Updates can be found on their status page here.
What we don't know:
OpenAI didn’t elaborate on what caused the outage.
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OpenAI ChatGPT
The backstory:
ChatGPT is a technological tool that has been around for more than two years now.
It’s a new generation of AI systems that can converse, generate readable text on demand and even produce novel images and video based on what they’ve learned from a vast database of digital books, online writings and other media.
It works like a written dialogue between the AI system and the person asking it questions.
The Source: Information in this article was taken from downdetector.com, an aggregate site that collects real-time reports of issues and outages with various services, and a public X post from OpenAI at 10:22 a.m. ET Tuesday. This story was reported from Detroit.