Hassan Khan
With continuous problems still plaguing the chatbot platform, Open AI’s ChatGPT has been having problems for over five hours Wednesday Morning.
The problems began in the early hours, with OpenAI first acknowledging issues on its status page at approximately 2:36 a.m. ET. However, the peak of user frustration hit around 7:41 a.m. ET,
Why does ChatGPT not function?
OpenAI reports that ChatGPT problems occurred on Wednesday, September 3 at approximately 2:36 a.m. ET. Around 7:41 a.m. ET on Wednesday, DownDetector displayed 749 reported faults.
While the outage isn’t impacting everyone, a number of ChatGPT users are encountering error messages.
Does a ChatGPT outage get reported by Down Detector?
The following problems were noted on Open AI’s status page:
Increased error rates partial outage: According to Open AI, certain customers are encountering increased error rates and latency across the listed services as of 7:41 a.m. ET. The investigation is still going on.
Increased Sora error rates due to partial outages: OpenAI was still looking into the problem for the specified services as of 7:41 a.m. ET.
Although there were only about 749 reports to DownDetector indicates that the outage peaked at 1,327 reports at 7:41 a.m. ET.
According to reports, 2% report app difficulties and 87% report ChatGPT issues.
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Conclusion
As of late Wednesday Morning, OpenAI is still in the diagnostic phase. There’s no official word on a specific cause whether it’s a server overload, a faulty update, or something more complex. The incident is a stark reminder that even the most advanced AI systems are built on infrastructure that can, and sometimes will, fail.
For now, the only advice is to keep an eye on OpenAI’s status page for updates and maybe brush up on those pre AI Problem Solving skills just in case.
ChatGPT experienced a widespread outage this morning, attributed to technical issues and server overload, prompting an immediate investigation and restoration efforts by OpenAI.
