ChatGPT is back up after an outage disrupted use this afternoon

Claude also went down for many users earlier today. If you had trouble using ChatGPT today, you aren't alone. The AI chatbot experienced a partial outage for many users this afternoon, with Down Detector saw reports reaching more than 12,000 reports around the peak point of the issue today.. OpenAI issued a status update shortly after noting that elevated error rates were occurring for ChatGPT and Platform users. That problem was marked as resolved at 5:14PM ET. While the initial outage may be repaired, OpenAI does still have an active status alert up. But the end may also be in sight for that final issue, because the current statement from the company is We have applied the mitigation and are monitoring the recovering.