In case you were working with ChatGPT today, you may have noticed that the OpenAI platform went down. In what appeared to be a mass outage, users of the artificial intelligence tool complained that they were unable to submit questions and load their ChatGPTs. Many reported at about 1:30 p.m ET that after giving the platform a prompt, ChatGPT didn’t load an answer. So, what is the reason behind the outage?
At 11:00 a.m. PT/2 p.m. ET on December 26, OpenAI acknowledged the widespread issue on its status website. The announcement read, “We are currently experiencing an issue with high error rates on ChatGPT, the API and Sora. We are currently investigating and will post an update as soon as we are able.”
OpenAI’s recent issue isn’t the only technological outage we’ve seen this year. In early December 2024, Meta’s platforms, Facebook, Facebook Messenger, Instagram and WhatsApp, all went down, causing pandemonium …