ChatGPT Is Down in a Massive Outage Affecting Thousands: 'Currently Experiencing Issues' OpenAI says it is aware of the outage and working on a fix.

By Erin Davis

OpenAI's ChatGPT is down for thousands of users on Tuesday, according to Down Detector.

The outage began early Tuesday and has continued past noon ET. The issue appears to be affecting users in North America, Europe, and Australia.

Related: OpenAI Is Creating AI to Do 'All the Things That Software Engineers Hate to Do'

OpenAI is aware of the ongoing problem, noting "elevated error rates" on ChatGPT and Sora (OpenAI's video generation model) for at least nine hours.

"We are seeing continued recovery across API and ChatGPT," the company said on its website. "We will provide further updates as progress is made."

Related: 'The Coolest Piece of Technology the World Has Ever Seen': OpenAI Is Acquiring Former Apple Designer Jony Ive's Startup for $6.4 Billion

This is a developing news story and will be updated.

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