ChatGPT is not working for many users right now. Along with multiple reports on social media, we also confirmed that the chatbot loads but is not able to answer questions, while others Seeing an “Internal Server Error” message.
The outage appears to have started around 1:30 p.m. ET, which is when reports started coming in spike on down detectorAt 2PM ET, OpenAI posted An update on its status pageChatGPT, the API, and its text-to-video generator, Sora, say they are “currently experiencing high error rates.” An update posted at 2:18 PM ET said the issue was “caused by an upstream provider” and that OpenAI is currently monitoring the situation.
At 3:06 p.m. ET, OpenAI said it was “continuing to work on a fix.” There is no mention of an ETA for when access will be restored.
ChatGPT has been down several times over the past several months. Just days after OpenAI released Sora to ChatGate customers earlier this month, the video generation tool and chatgpt went down For hours. Meanwhile, massive power outages are affecting AI tools ChatGPT was taken down in June,
Update, December 26: Added an update from OpenAI.