ChatGPT, the massively popular conversational chatbot, was down for a short time before the issue was resolved, according to an OpenAI status update.

The artificial intelligence (AI) company has acknowledged there is a major outage and is working to resolve the issue after a huge spike in reported disruptions. View on euronews

Multiple users reported issues with OpenAI on Thursday morning, according to Downdetector. By 6:45 a.m. more than 4,000 people reported issues with the service to Downdetector, more than 90% of which indicated problems with ChatGPT.

Thousands of users were unable to access OpenAI’s chatbot starting around 6 a.m. on Thursday. Shortly after 10 a.m., the company said the issue had been resolved.

ChatGPT experienced an unplanned outage today, January 23, 2025, affecting users in the U.S., U.K and around the world. Reports started to emerge on outage-tracking site DownDetector and across social media at around 4am PT/ 7am ET/ 12pm GMT with no official word from parent company OpenAI on what the cause is.

While outages and disruption in services are common for internet services, ChatGPT has experienced downtimes frequently over the last few weeks. In December, ChatGPT was hit by a massive outage in the US, resulting in glitches in additional OpenAI services, as well.

GenAI chatbot ChatGPT is currently down globally, leaving users who have grown accustomed to quick fixes from the chatbot in a frenzy.

Downdetector, which tracks website outages, showed more than 10,000 people reported the AI chatbot, which is made by OpenAI, was not working in the UK on Thursday. Users attempting to use it were met with a message reading "the web server reported a bad gateway error".

Downdetector, a website that tracks online service disruptions, has registered a significant spike in outage reports for ChatGPT within the last hour. The cause of the outage is currently unknown. OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, has yet to release an official statement addressing the issue.

ChatGPT, the massively popular conversational chatbot, was down for a short time before the issue was resolved, according to an OpenAI status update.