The surge in outage reports began at about 4:30 a.m. and peaked at 5 a.m. Arizona time. While Phoenix was not yet one of the most impacted cities, places like New York City, Boston, Washington, D.C. and parts of Florida were seeing significant impacts,

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".

ChatGPT is down for thousands of users across the globe as some complain the outage interrupted their ability to work or disrupted their daily routines. Many reported receiving a "bad gateway" error m

OpenAI has yet to publicly address the issue on its social media accounts, but its status page said there was a "major outage" for 32 minutes and a "partial outage" for nearly two hours. The company said shortly after 11 a.m. Eastern that the issue had been resolved.

ChatGPT launched in the fall of 2022 and quickly became the fastest-growing consumer software. The base version is free, but some users pay as much as $200 a month for the service. Around 300 million people use OpenAI's chatbot every week, and the chatbot handles more than 1 billion messages a day.

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.

Downdetector, a platform that monitors service outages, has reported a significant surge in complaints regarding ChatGPT being offline.

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.

ChatGPT experienced a major outage on Thursday morning, leaving thousands of users unable to access the popular AI chatbot.

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

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