ChatGPT is currently down for many

ChatGPT is currently down for many users of the popular OpenAI service. When you try to ask ChatGPT a question, you likely won’t get a response.

OpenAI confirmed the issue on its status page saying, “We’re currently experiencing issues.”

OpenAI added, “We have identified that users are experiencing elevated errors for the impacted services. We are working on implementing a mitigation.”

What it looks like. Many are seeing just a black dot as a response to their questions within the ChatGPT interface:

Offline for many. The OpenAI status screen shows the uptime by service:

Downdetector shows the service has been reported as offline by thousands of users:

The issue started at about 2:30 pm ET and is still down after almost 30 minutes right now.

Why we care. If you are using ChatGPT for your own tasks, marketing, SEO, PPC or just to send a client an email, it might not work properly for you.

I am sure OpenAI is doing its best to get it up and running again.

Coming back. About 30 minutes after the outage, it seems to be coming back for some users. I tested it and at 3pm ET it does seem to be working again.