OpenAI has not acknowledged the outage, Downdetector indicates a significant increase in outage reports.
ChatGPT, one of the most popular AI-based chatbots, is experiencing disturbances that prevent users from initiating conversations or accessing their history.
Upon reloading the page, it shows a ‘Bad Request’ error. While OpenAI has not acknowledged the outage, Downdetector shows a significant increase in outage reports, over 1,000 at the time of publication.
As per the social media community, this seems to be a global outage of the popular AI chatbot, ChatGPT.
Users worldwide are reporting timeouts. ChatGPT had 300 million active global users in 2024 and accounted for more than 60% of the AI tools market.
Lack of access to the platform puts many organizations and customers that use the services at risk of looking for alternatives due to reliability difficulties.
OpenAI recently updated its status to 'identified' amid countless reports of outages globally. Users have flooded social media platform X (Twitter) with screenshots of the recurring error that pops up while trying to access ChatGPT.
