Is ChatGPT down? Thousands report issues | FOX 10 Phoenix
Thousands of users experienced issues early Tuesday morning with the popular tech site. According to Downdetector.com, reports of user outages started around 5 a.m. ET Tuesday and continued to rise throughout the morning. As of 8:30 a.m., over 1,000 individuals were still facing problems. A quick test with a prompt did not yield results around 9 a.m.
Updates from OpenAI
OpenAI acknowledged the heightened error rates and delays in response times across its platforms via a social media post later on Tuesday morning. The tweet mentioned that the engineers had identified the root cause and were working on resolving the issue. For further updates, you can visit their status page here.
OpenAI did not provide specific details on what triggered the outage.
About ChatGPT
ChatGPT is an AI tool that has been in existence for over two years. It belongs to a new generation of AI systems that can engage in conversations, generate readable text on demand, and even create images and videos based on its vast database of digital content. Essentially, it operates as a written dialogue between the AI system and the user.
Information in this article was sourced from Downdetector.com and a public post from OpenAI. This news story was reported from Detroit.
