Latest: ChatGPT is now back up and running on OpenAI.com after going down for over an hour.
Hundreds of thousands of users around the world struggled today to access OpenAI’s chatbot ChatGPT. With the launch of GPT4 last week, many were keen to see the new capabilities of the AI tool but they had to wait just a bit longer.
Difficulties accessing ChatGPT are common, with users frequently being asked to wait when the service is at capacity. But just about everyone, around the world, was locked out.
OpenAI’s own status page showed they were aware of the problem and were “currently investigating this issue.” and now it has declared "All Systems Operational." Both free users and those with $20 a month ChatGPT Plus subscriptions experienced the same problems.
On February 21st, ChatGPT went down (Asia).Today, March 20th, it is down again.I have already forgotten how to do my job. #chatgptdown pic.twitter.com/tIp1zZw1CMMarch 20, 2023
Last month there were significant outages in Asia but this latest outage seems to have been on a global scale. U.S. and European users reported across social media their inability to access the tool and our UK staff are had the same issue.
Bing with ChatGPT was not effected and continues to work as normal and last week even managed to clear its waitlist and go public, although it could be considered a little slower than usual, likely due to users flocking to the service.
ChatGPT's technology is becoming more and more integrated into our lives, with the release of its API seeing it arrive in a variety of apps, from online stores to Snapchat.
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