ChatGPT down: Thousands report outage with OpenAI chatbot and Sora
The IndependentThe latest headlines from our reporters across the US sent straight to your inbox each weekday Your briefing on the latest headlines from across the US Your briefing on the latest headlines from across the US SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy OpenAI’s much-used ChatGPT artificial intelligence chatbot is down, with scores of social media users reporting complaints. “We are currently experiencing an issue with high error rates on ChatGPT, the API, and Sora,” the company wrote in a status update late Thursday morning Pacific time. “We are currently investigating and will post an update as soon as we are able.” The company later said the issues stemmed from an “upstream provider and we are currently monitoring.” A company status page showed ChatGPT and the company’s application programming interface experiencing a “major” outage, while Sora had a “partial” outage. “I refuse to google like a caveman.” “Well, ChatGPT‘s down, back to using my own brain again,” X user @daansky wrote.