Thu Jan 23 18:56:44 UTC 2025: ## ChatGPT Experiences Global Outage, Quickly Resolved by OpenAI

**SAN FRANCISCO, [Date]** – Popular AI chatbot ChatGPT experienced a significant global outage earlier today, leaving millions of users unable to access the service via the website. While the OpenAI mobile app remained functional, the website returned a “bad gateway” error, indicating a server-side problem. Downdetector showed a surge in user reports confirming the widespread disruption. The outage also affected access to users’ chat history.

OpenAI acknowledged the issue on its status page, reporting that the problem had been identified and a fix implemented. The company has not yet disclosed the cause of the outage. The incident occurred shortly after OpenAI rolled out a new user interface and backend updates to customize chat responses, although a connection between the update and the outage remains unconfirmed. Service has since been restored.

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