Thu Jan 23 19:20:47 UTC 2025: ## ChatGPT Suffers Major Outage, Leaving Millions Locked Out
**NEW DELHI** – OpenAI’s popular chatbot, ChatGPT, experienced a significant server outage today, leaving thousands of users unable to access the platform. The website is currently inaccessible, displaying a “Bad gateway” error message, preventing users from logging in.
Down Detector, a website tracking online service outages, shows a massive surge in reported problems related to OpenAI and ChatGPT. While the mobile app appears to be functioning normally, the website remains offline.
OpenAI’s official status page acknowledges “degraded performance” for ChatGPT and confirms that the company is working to resolve the issue. The cause of the outage has not yet been disclosed. The disruption is impacting users worldwide.