ChatGPT Global Outage Drags on for Hours—Heres What We Know

The company has not yet acknowledged the outage on its X account, where it most recently teased updates to its “Advanced Voice” service. The feature allows users to to have “more natural, real-time conversations” with ChatGPT, rather than typing or using the voice-to-text feature to transcribe their queries.

ChatGPT has experienced outages before. The chatbot went dark this time last year after the company expanded access to its GPT-4o model to free users. Then it happened again after ChatGPT was integrated into Apple Intelligence in December.

Back in November 2023, the company even faced a distributed denial of service, or DDoS, attack that was thought to be linked to Russian hackers. Even when there havent been outages, researchers have at times said that the ChatGPT service was getting worse—not better—over time, which runs counter to the promises the company has made about its LLM.

The companys status page shows that ChatGPT service was initially “degraded” starting on Monday, but within an hour the issue was marked as resolved.

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