ChatGPT down: AI chat app not working as website goes offline

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ChatGPT is offline, leaving users unable to talk to the AI ​​chat app.

Visitors to the website saw an error page instead of the usual chat options, and official apps and other integrations with ChatGPT also appeared to be broken.

The official status page for OpenAI, which makes the service, said it saw “increased error rates” and was investigating the issue.

Tracking website Down Detector saw a huge spike in complaints about problems around midday UK time, or 7:00 AM Eastern Time. The timing meant that many took to other platforms to complain that they had been unable to use a tool that was central to their work or study.

“chat down in the middle of the work day im about to get fired pray for me,” the user wrote on X, along with other complaints from people who said they were in the middle of coding or writing essays and now had to do work themselves.

ChatGPT now has more than 300 million people using it every week, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman announced late last year. Users send more than a billion messages each day to the system, he said.