ChatGPT Outage Globally? Learn What Happened?

On Monday, June 17, ChatGPT went offline. ChatGPT is an artificial intelligence (AI) tool that assists people with various tasks. It was down for approximately 2.5 hours. Many people could not use it during this time.

The problem started around 2 p.m. EST. When using ChatGPT, users encountered error messages. The parent company, OpenAI, began looking into the problem at about 2:30 p.m. EST. By 5 p.m. EST, they had fixed it and ChatGPT was operational once more.

OpenAI said the problem was because many people were using ChatGPT at the same time. This caused the system to overload. The outage impacted both the website and the mobile application.

Some people were upset because ChatGPT was down. They took to social media to address the issue. Some people joked about it, but others were serious. They stated that they relied on ChatGPT for work and would struggle without it.

OpenAI worked quickly to fix the problem. They updated their status page to let people know what was happening. By the end of the day, ChatGPT was back to normal.

This is not the first time ChatGPT has had problems. It has had other outages in the past. Some lasted only 30 minutes, but others were longer.

If ChatGPT goes down again, there are other AI tools people can use. Some of these are Google Gemini, Claude 3, and Perplexity. These tools also help people with tasks like writing and creating images.