While reports on Down Detector spiked to over 2,600, they have started to dip slightly, but remain elevated. As of 3:40 PM ET – the last update on the service – reports were over 1,100, suggesting that OpenAI is making good progress in mitigating the issue.
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OpenAI has identified the problem
As of 3:24 PM ET, OpenAI write,s “We have identified the issue and are working to mitigate it.” The ChatGPT maker isn’t yet providing details on what is causing the issue, but it has identified the issue and is working on a resolution.
As we noted above, this outage is mostly affecting free ChatGPT users, so if you have a paid account or one through enterprise or education, you’re likely not seeing issues.
As someone with a free ChatGPT account, here’s what responses currently look like from the chatbot. ChatGPT isn’t saying much, if anything, just returning an error.
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OpenAI confirms ChatGPT is having problems for free accounts
OpenAI is at least quick to confirm the issues here: the official status page reads, “Increased errors on ChatGPT conversations for free users,” and confirms a partial outage.
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Down Detector reports are spiking
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As you can see just before 3PM ET, reports for issues on ChatGPT began spiking and I’ve been getting an error in my attempts to use the AI chatbot on the dekstop and via the iOS app.
