ChatGPT has gone down the day after Christmas

No, it wasn’t just you. The day after Christmas, ChatGPT stopped working for many.

OpenAI’s flagship chatbot experienced major outages around 2 p.m. ET on Thursday, just when some of its users would theoretically have something to do after getting over the Christmas rush. According to Down detectorreported tons of users that the site was down for them by early afternoon, though the reports started to die down after half an hour or so. That said, ChatGPT is currently not working for me.

Yes, it’s broken.
Credit: Screenshot: OpenAI

The fallout manifested itself in different ways depending on how I tried to use ChatGPT. On mobile, the “send” button next to the text prompt input field was simply grayed out and did nothing. On the desktop I could send prompts but they would immediately be returned with an error message.

It just goes to show that OpenAI has some kinks to work out before it can achieve its big ambitions.