ChatGPT Faces Major Outage: Thousands Report Errors as OpenAI Acknowledges Chatbot and Sora Disruption

OpenAI's popular AI chatbot, ChatGPT, is facing a severe outage, preventing customers worldwide from accessing its services. Although the official website still loads, the chatbot does not answer to any queries, instead displaying error messages like "Hmm...something seems to have gone wrong" and "A network error occurred."

Thousands of users have reported the problem, with reports flooding platforms such as Down Detector, a company that monitors online service outages.The increase in reported problems suggests that the problem is affecting a big number of people in multiple regions.

OpenAI has addressed the issue on its status page (https://status.openai.com/), confirming that both ChatGPT and Sora, its AI-powered text-to-video production platform, are temporarily unavailable.However, the corporation has yet to provide any information concerning the root of the problem or a projected time for service restoration.

Many users have been disappointed by this unexpected disruption, as they rely on ChatGPT for everyday work, writing assistance, coding support, and other services.  As AI technologies become more common and integrated into workflows, disruptions emphasise the necessity of platform stability and prompt communication from service providers.Users should stay tuned to OpenAI's official status page for updates.

Information referenced in this article is from Business Today