OpenAI’s popular ChatGPT service experienced significant disruptions on Tuesday morning, leaving many users unable to access the AI chatbot. Reports of slow responses and complete outages flooded social media platforms like X and Reddit, with users expressing frustration over the service interruption. The issue appeared to be widespread, impacting multiple regions globally, according to Downdetector. The outages began around 3 AM ET, affecting not only ChatGPT but also OpenAI’s Sora text-to-video AI tool and its APIs.
OpenAI’s own status page acknowledged “elevated error rates and latency,” confirming the widespread nature of the problem. While some users reported sluggish performance, others experienced complete failures, receiving an error message indicating a problem with the service. The inconsistent impact suggests the outage wasn’t uniform across all users. As of this writing, OpenAI is actively investigating the cause of the disruption and has yet to provide an estimated time for service restoration.
This outage highlights the inherent vulnerabilities of relying on large-scale AI services. While ChatGPT has become an indispensable tool for many, its susceptibility to technical difficulties underscores the need for robust infrastructure and redundancy to minimize disruptions. We will continue to monitor the situation and provide updates as they become available from OpenAI.
