ChatGPT Suffered Global Disruption as Users Were Left Struggling with Outage
Reports of widespread disruption flooded Down Detector, revealing a staggering 12,000 concurrent instances of issues reported by users, with the peak hit around mid-afternoon today. OpenAI issued a status update shortly thereafter, warning that "elevated error rates" were affecting both its ChatGPT and Platform services.
As the problem was swiftly identified and resolved at 5:14PM ET, several open questions remain. Notably, an active alert remains in place for the fine-tuning component of OpenAI's API service, with a statement confirming that the issue has been "applied" and is now being monitored – potentially paving the way for a definitive fix.
This incident is not isolated; Anthropic’s Claude AI chatbot experienced similar issues, citing elevated error rates across its models. Fortunately, the status was resolved earlier today at 1PM ET, alleviating concerns for users who had been impacted by the outages of both popular AI platforms.
As OpenAI continues to monitor and address ongoing issues with ChatGPT's API service, users can breathe a sigh of relief that many reported problems have been resolved.
Reports of widespread disruption flooded Down Detector, revealing a staggering 12,000 concurrent instances of issues reported by users, with the peak hit around mid-afternoon today. OpenAI issued a status update shortly thereafter, warning that "elevated error rates" were affecting both its ChatGPT and Platform services.
As the problem was swiftly identified and resolved at 5:14PM ET, several open questions remain. Notably, an active alert remains in place for the fine-tuning component of OpenAI's API service, with a statement confirming that the issue has been "applied" and is now being monitored – potentially paving the way for a definitive fix.
This incident is not isolated; Anthropic’s Claude AI chatbot experienced similar issues, citing elevated error rates across its models. Fortunately, the status was resolved earlier today at 1PM ET, alleviating concerns for users who had been impacted by the outages of both popular AI platforms.
As OpenAI continues to monitor and address ongoing issues with ChatGPT's API service, users can breathe a sigh of relief that many reported problems have been resolved.
I was just playing around with ChatGPT yesterday, it was so cool! But now I'm stuck trying to get some work done and it's just not cooperating. 12,000 instances of issues reported is crazy, I guess that's what happens when you start getting popular 
. OpenAI needs to step up their game if they wanna keep users like me happy... 
Still, gotta give 'em credit for fixing the problem ASAP and keeping us in the dark wasn't forever... 
... like I was talking about it on Discord earlier, some people were saying it's not just a coincidence that both OpenAI and Anthropic's AI chatbots went down at the same time? 
I mean, what are the chances, right? And now they're both saying something about "elevated error rates" 
... sounds like a big phrase to me. Are they trying to cover something up? I'm not saying it's definitely a conspiracy, but you gotta wonder, right? 
! Like, what even is happening with these chatbots? They're supposed to be so smart and all 
. But seriously, 12k concurrent issues? That's wild 
. I feel bad for the users who were stuck on ChatGPT, though 
. On a lighter note, I'm glad Claude AI got its act together sooner 
. Can't wait to see how OpenAI fixes this stuff 
... hopefully they can get it right this time 
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What's going on?! It feels like a whole new world of tech troubles 
. On the bright side, at least it's not like that time when dial-up was all the rage 
what do you guys think? should we be worried or is this just a minor glitch? 
. The fact that both ChatGPT and Claude were affected is pretty wild - I mean, we already knew AI wasn't perfect, but this is on a whole other level 
. I mean, 12k concurrent issues is no joke! It just goes to show how reliant we've become on these AI tools and how quickly their downtime can affect us. But at the same time, it's also a reminder that even with all the tech in place, sometimes things still go awry 
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anyway i think its pretty cool how they're monitoring things and trying to fix the fine-tuning component - hope it doesn't happen again too soon 
just when i thought chatgpt was gonna be my go-to for everything... now it's all like this 
anyway, glad the issues are being looked at and resolved... think i'll stick with chatgpt for now 
Anyway, it's crazy to think about how dependent we are on these AI platforms now. I mean, 12,000 people struggling with an outage is like a whole lotta drama. 
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what's the point of having them online if they're just gonna crash on us? I mean, 12,000 instances of issues is no joke, that's like half the world or something 
. And now they've got an alert up for one of the parts... doesn't feel right to me 
. Anyway, glad the problems are mostly fixed now 
. maybe this is an opportunity for OpenAI to iron out some bugs and make ChatGPT even better? 
. but seriously tho, what's going on with these AI platforms? one minute they're all smooth sailing 
, next minuute they're down for hours 
. and don't even get me started on the waiting game... how do u people keep track of when everything is back up & running again? 
But for real, glad that the issues were resolved ASAP at 5:14PM ET 
... now if only we knew for sure when ChatGPT will be back to normal