Fri Dec 27 15:06:24 UTC 2024: ## ChatGPT Suffers Major Outage, Leaving Users Frustrated
**New York, NY** – Popular AI chatbot ChatGPT experienced a significant service disruption on Thursday afternoon, leaving numerous users unable to access the platform. OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, acknowledged the widespread glitches, attributing the problem to issues with an “upstream provider.”
The outage, affecting users primarily in the US, was tracked by Downdetector, which registered over 100 reports of technical difficulties. OpenAI subsequently issued a status update confirming high error rates across ChatGPT, its API, and its image generation tool, Sora.
This marks the second major outage for ChatGPT this month. Earlier in December, a three-hour service interruption prompted OpenAI CEO Sam Altman to address the situation on X (formerly Twitter), jokingly offering to personally handle user requests.
The outage sparked a wave of frustrated reactions on social media, with users expressing their reliance on the AI tool and bemoaning a return to “caveman” methods of information gathering. The incident highlights the growing dependence on AI services and the potential disruption caused by even temporary outages.
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