Delhi, June 10: OpenAI's AI chatbot ChatGPT experienced a major global outage on Tuesday.
Services of the ChatGPT are unreachable mostly in India and US, leaving thousands of users in troule.
Apart from it, ChatGPT services across multiple continents are reportedly facing the highest disruptions.
According to the real-time monitoring platform Downdetector, user reports of ChatGPT outages surged rapidly around 3:00 PM, with about 800 complaints logged in India alone.
About 88 per cent of complaints from India cited the chatbot not responding to queries, 8 per cent reported issues with the mobile app, and 3 per cent faced API-related problems.
Users attempting to access ChatGPT encountered repeated error messages such as "Hmm…something seems to have gone wrong” and “A network error occurred. Please check your connection and try again.”
The outage led to a flurry of activity on social media, with users sharing memes, voicing frustration, and highlighting the growing reliance on AI tools for daily tasks.
OpenAI acknowledged the outage on its system status page, confirming that both ChatGPT and its text-to-video platform Sora were affected.
"Some users are also experiencing elevated error rates and latency across the listed services. We are continuing to investigate this issue," OpenAI reports, following enormous inconveniences reported from the users’ end.
The reason of outage and details of its resolve, are yet to be ascertained.
