ChatGPT crashes reported by thousands of users

On By Littum

ChatGPT appeared to be disrupted on Thursday morning as thousands of users reported problems with the site.

Down Detector website displayed more than 4,000 reports of problems with the site starting shortly after

Users who tried to access the site saw an error message instead.

OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, did not immediately return a request for comment. Its social media did not report any problems early Thursday morning.

On Tuesday, President Trump announced a joint venture between OpenAI, SoftBank and Oracle to create at least $100 billion in computing infrastructure to power artificial intelligence. OpenAI’s CEO, Sam Altman, was at the White House for the announcement.

(The New York Times has sued OpenAI and its partner, Microsoft, accusing them of copyright infringement of news content related to AI systems. OpenAI and Microsoft have denied these claims.)