Update: OpenAI appears to have resolved the issue and updated status.openai.com with “All Systems Operational.” The outage lasted for around five hours, according to Downdetector.com.
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ChatGPT stopped working this afternoon, the second major outage for the chatbot in June.
“We are currently investigating elevated error rates impacting ChatGPT,” OpenAI says in a message posted at 11:39 Pacific Time. The reason for the outage is not yet known.
People around the world are reporting they are unable to use the tool. “Should I submit PTO? I hate working without ChatGPT,” says one Reddit user. “Please let this be voice update,” said another, referring to the upcoming launch of Voice Mode for the GPT-4o model.
Not all ChatGPT users may experience an outage, and the number of reported incidents is declining as of this writing, according to Downdetector.com. (Note: Downdetector is owned by PCMag parent company Ziff Davis.)
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The last time ChatGPT went down was on June 4. OpenAI promptly fixed the issue, but then the tool went down again a few hours later. ChatGPT also had some trouble in May, when a four-day stretch brought intermittent outages and service delays.
Over the past 90 days, OpenAI says ChatGPT has achieved 99.42% uptime, the lowest reliability of the four services it tracks at status.openai.com. “99.4% really isn’t very good for what’s become a business-critical tool for so many,” says one X user.
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