It’s been a dark day for ChatGPT
ChatGPT is suffering from a prolonged outage, which has seen the service disrupted for more than eight hours.
The OpenAI service status page reported that “some users are experiencing elevated error rates and latency across the listed services.” from around 4am ET. As of 11:15 ET, the service is still struggling, with OpenAI reporting that it’s “still working on implementing the mitigation for this issue.”
The “partial outage” is disrupting ChatGPT, the Sora video generation service and the company’s APIs.
Although the ChatGPT site appears to be functional, responses to queries have been slow or showing error messages for several hours. The “too many requests’” error appeared when I entered a prompt shortly before this article was published, with the service appearing to slow down further with more of the U.S. entering working hours.
ChatGPT Down Again
The AI service is beginning to garner something of an unwanted reputation for its poor reliability, with outages not a rare occurrence. OpenAI’s own service status page shows frequent disruptions to service from March this year, with disruptions marked with amber or red markers in the chart below, red being the most severe.
ChatGPT has struggled with reliability in recent months
Outages are not only an inconvenience for users, they can also be a security concern. “This isn’t the first time that ChatGPT has experienced an outage and it won’t be the last,” said Marijus Briedis, chief technology officer at NordVPN in a statement.
“However, we know that past incidents have seen some users’ conversation history and potentially payment information exposed due to bugs. Even temporary disruptions can sometimes reveal sensitive data.”
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