ChatGPT down: Thousands report outages with OpenAI chatbot and Sora

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OpenAI’s widely used ChatGPT artificial intelligence chatbot is downwith dozens of social media users reporting complaints.

Others noted problems with OpenAI’s Sora video generation model.

“We are currently experiencing an issue with high error rates on ChatGPT, the API and Sora,” the company wrote in a status update late Thursday morning Pacific Time. “We are currently investigating and will send an update as soon as we can.”

The company later said the issues originated with an “upstream provider and we are currently monitoring.”

A company status page showed ChatGPT and the company’s application programming interface (API) experiencing a “major” outage, while Sora had a “partial” outage.

More than 12,000 people reported OpenAI-related in the last 24 hours, according to the monitoring site Downdetector.

Reddit users shared photos on Thursday of issues with the ChatGPT login screen, as well as error messages they received while using the chatbot itself.

Predictably, the outage spawned several jokes on social media.

“Sat down to study opened iPad and chatgpt is down,” X user @2dwade, submittedalong with a video of someone spitting out their food. “I refuse to google like a caveman.”

“Well ChatGPT is down, back to using my own brain again,” X user @daansky wrote.

This is a news story and will be updated with new information.