Global ChatGPT Outage Sparks Mystery: AI Bot Suddenly Falls Silent Without Warning
Well, folks, brace yourselves for a day of abysmal emails and toothless auto-replies because ChatGPT—the AI oracle we all rely on—has decided to throw a global tantrum. With over a thousand users hollering into the void that their trusty digital sidekick is “not responding,” it’s clear the bot’s taken a coffee break… indefinitely. Ever wonder what happens when the fastest-growing tech marvel in history suddenly goes mute? Yep, suddenly we’re all experts at manual labor again—imagine that! The tech giant OpenAI’s status page admits to a ‘partial outage’ affecting 23 components, leaving us stranded without those silky AI-generated words. And while CEO Sam Altman’s spilling the beans on how costly polite chats with ChatGPT really are, he also confesses a recent fumble in launching GPT-5—because, apparently, even AI can have a bad day. So, who’s ready to face the existential crisis that comes when the digital abyss stares back?
Prepare to receive some sloppily written emails today, as ChatGPT has apparently gone down.
Everyone’s favourite AI tool is reportedly experiencing a worldwide outage, according to social media users. Tons of people have taken to social media to complain that the popular AI chatbot is ‘not responding’.
More than 1,000 people reported issues with ChatGPT on Down Detector on Wednesday morning (3 September).
One person said: “Constantly getting ‘something went wrong, please try reloading the conversation’.”
Another joked: “ChatGPT’s behaving like my ex missus today – only difference is, she used to at least pretend to listen. I ask a question, and it just stares into the digital abyss like I’ve triggered an existential crisis,” while a third added: “ChatGPT is not responding to conversations!”
And a fourth chimed in, saying: “ChatGPT not working. How am I supposed to get anything done now?”
Hundreds of people have been complaining that the AI tool has gone down (Smith Collection/Gado/Getty Images)
It appears as though people may have to start doing a bit of manual labour once again while OpenAI’s chatbot sorts itself out.
According to the tech firm’s service status page for ChatGPT, there is currently a ‘partial outage’.
It states: “ChatGPT not displaying responses. We are investigating the root cause.”
The website goes on to explain that there are currently ’23 affected components’ of the chatbot.
The AI-powered language model is one of the fastest-growing technologies in history and garnered a whopping 100 million users just two months after its launch in 2022.
Fulfilling all the requests from these people doesn’t come cheap, either.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman previously revealed how much it costs the company when you use your manners and say ‘thank you’ to ChatGPT.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman previously revealed how much the chatbot costs to run (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)
The tech guru has also spoken about the other ‘eye-popping’ sums that come with running ChatGPT.
Altman reckons that the chatbot is only going to grow even bigger from here on out, as he believes ‘billions of people’ will be using it on a daily basis ‘pretty soon’.
“ChatGPT will be having more conversations, maybe, than all human words put together, at some point,” he said. “I think it’s unreasonable to expect a single model personality or style to work for all of that.”
It currently processes more than 2.5 billion prompts each day – and as Altman mentioned, that’s a number which is only set to go upwards.
The OpenAI boss also admitted he ‘totally screwed up’ the launch of the newest model of ChatGPT last month.
Users complained that GPT-5 didn’t quite embody the warmth and friendliness they had become accustomed to after conversing with GPT-4.
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