Users have taken to social media to express their frustration and confusion over difficulty accessing the service.

ChatGPT users around the world woke up to find that their trusted AI companion had unexpectedly failed. Users have taken to social media to express their frustration and confusion over difficulty accessing the service. OpenAI has identified the issue and stated that some features are currently experiencing slow logins and reduced performance.

Those affected by the ChatGPT provider’s downtime received notifications just before 7:00 p.m. ET. The situation soon escalated into a significant outage affecting the API, ChatGPT, and Sora services.

Since many companies use OpenAI’s API for their projects, this outage affects millions of users around the world. It goes without saying that the need for OpenAI to resume operations is clear. No current estimate has been given as to when operations are expected to return to normal at the moment, but any new developments will be taken into account.

OpenAI detects interruptions in services

OpenAI recently posted online that API calls were not working and some users were having issues logging into platform.openai.com and ChatGPT. They are aware of the problem and are currently trying to solve it.

There are reports of slow login processes and a general decline in usage performance for some features. Unauthorized access and other issues impact disruptions to Open AI’s API, ChatGPT, and Sora services.

Many users are now reporting that OpenAI’s widely known chatbot, ChatGPT, is unavailable this morning. Down Detector, a mapping service that indexes outages based on user complaints, has seen an explosion in the number of people complaining about ChatGPT being offline.

Meta platforms are suffering a huge blackout

Earlier in the day, there was a major WhatsApp outage, leaving users worldwide unable to send or receive messages. Similar conclusions were drawn for the Meta-owned Instagram and Facebook platforms; Such reports anger millions of users.

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