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Summary
- ChatGPT is currently experiencing a major outage.
- OpenAI has confirmed the service is experiencing issues and is working on fixing them.
- There is no timeline for when ChatGPT’s services will be fully restored. Users report error messages and slow responses.
If you’ve been trying to use ChatGPT today but keep encountering error messages, you’re not alone. The popular AI chatbot is facing a significant outage in the US.
OpenAI is aware of the problem, and its official status page for ChatGPT indicates it’s “currently experiencing issues.” OpenAI says it is working on a fix, but there is no timeline for when services will be fully restored. The outage is impacting ChatGPT’s web services and mobile app.
“We have identified that users are experiencing elevated errors for the impacted services. We are working on implementing a mitigation,” OpenAI says.
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Thousands of users in the US are reporting issues
ChatGPT is either slow to respond or not working at all
According to downtector.com, a website that tracks outages worldwide, there have been thousands of reports that ChatGPT is down in the US, with many users receiving the response “Something went wrong” when trying to prompt the AI chatbot. Other users are reporting that ChatGPT is working, but it’s extremely slow to respond.

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