ChatGPT, the artificial intelligence chatbot developed by OpenAI, is experiencing an outage Friday morning, Australian time.
Key Facts
- More than 50,000 outages have been reported for ChatGPT on Downdetector.com after a surge in reports around 5:30 a.m AEST.
- The outage appeared to persist beyond 6:30 a.m. AEST., with 3,463 new reports of outages.
- A Forbes query given to ChatGPT at 3:40 p.m. EST (US time) produced no answer from the Chatbot, with a message reading “Internal Server Error” appearing instead.
- OpenAI said in an update posted at 8:05 a.m. AEST it was “continuing to work on a fix for this issue,” which was caused by an unnamed internet service provider.
- Users on X, home to ChatGPT’s rival chatbot, Grok, complained about the outage, joking that they were back to using their own brains again.
- This outage is ChatGPT’s second of the month, according to TechCrunch, which noted a roughly six-hour outage occurred two weeks ago.
This is a developing story and will be updated.
